Anti-helium from dark matter annihilations

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2014, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Cirelli, Marco ^a   Fornengo, Nicolao ^b,c   Taoso, Marco ^a   Vittino, Andrea ^a,b,c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^c SEZIONE DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Beyond Standard Model; Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919884403     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP08(2014)009     Document Type: Article

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