The windows for kinetically mixed Z′-mediated dark matter and the galactic center gamma ray excess

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2014, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Cline, James M ^a   Dupuis, Grace ^a   Liu, Zuowei ^a   Xue, Wei ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b SEZIONE DI TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Beyond Standard Model; Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919904635     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP08(2014)131     Document Type: Article

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