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Dark Matter Tomography

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-07-10 v1 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Authors: Shmuel Nussinov
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Abstract

We consider Wimp annihilations into monochromatic and continuous γ\gamma's and the angular distribution of the resulting gammas. We discuss how the WIMP density profile can be reconstructed from the angular dependence of the photon flux.

Keywords

dark matter annihilation

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@article{arxiv.0907.1628,
  title  = {Dark Matter Tomography},
  author = {Shmuel Nussinov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0907.1628},
  year   = {2009}
}

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6 pages, 1 figure

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