Cosmological lower bound on dark matter masses from the soft gamma-ray background

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2005, Pages

  Ahn, Kyungjin ^a   Komatsu, Eiichiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COSMOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; COSMOS; DARK MATTER; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; GAMMA RADIATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PARTICLE RADIATION; PHOTON; POSITRON; RADIATION DETECTION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84927760215     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.71.021303     Document Type: Article

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