Can a millicharged dark matter particle emit an observable γ-ray line?

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2014, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  El Aisati, Chaïmae ^a   Hambye, Thomas ^a   Scarnà, Tiziana ^a  

^a Service de Physique Théorique   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Beyond Standard Model; Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906777556     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP08(2014)133     Document Type: Article

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