A tale of tails: Dark matter interpretations of the Fermi GeV excess in light of background model systematics

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Calore, Francesca ^a   Cholis, Ilias ^b   McCabe, Christopher ^a   Weniger, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 84924388725     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.91.063003     Document Type: Article

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