Cosmological implications of photon-flux upper limits at ultrahigh energies in scenarios of Planckian-interacting massive particles for dark matter
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2023-02-07Referencia bibliográfica
Abreu, P... [et al.]. Cosmological implications of photon-flux upper limits at ultra-high energies in scenarios of Planckian-interacting massive particles for dark matter. PHYSICAL REVIEW D 107, 042002 (2023). DOI: [10.1103/PhysRevD.107.042002]
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