Signals of a light dark force in the galactic center

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2015, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  Liu, Jia ^a,b   Weiner, Neal ^b   Xue, Wei ^c  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beyond Standard Model; Electromagnetic Processes and Properties

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939173071     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP08(2015)050     Document Type: Article

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