X-ray lines from dark matter: The good, the bad, and the unlikely

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2014, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Frandsen, Mads T ^a   Sannino, Francesco ^a   Shoemaker, Ian M ^a   Svendsen, Ole ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

dark matter experiments; dark matter theory; X rays

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902587942     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2014/05/033     Document Type: Article

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