Bhattacharya, Atri ; Université de Liège > Département d'astrophys., géophysique et océanographie (AGO) > Inter. fondamentales en physique et astrophysique (IFPA)
Reno, Mary Hall
Sarcevic, Ina
Language :
English
Title :
Reconciling neutrino flux from heavy dark matter decay and recent events at IceCube
Publication date :
2014
Journal title :
Journal of High Energy Physics
ISSN :
1126-6708
eISSN :
1029-8479
Publisher :
Institute of Physics Publishing (IOP), Bristol, United Kingdom
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