Strong optimized conservative Fermi-LAT constraints on dark matter models from the inclusive photon spectrum

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 91, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  Massari, Andrea ^a   Izaguirre, Eder ^b   Essig, Rouven ^a   Albert, Andrea ^c   Bloom, Elliott ^c   Gómez Vargas, Germán Arturo ^d,e  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Canada)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^e INFN SEZIONE DI ROMA TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

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DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.91.083539     Document Type: Article

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