Prospects of detecting gamma-ray emission from galaxy clusters : Cosmic rays and dark matter annihilations

We study the possibility for detecting gamma-ray emission from galaxy clusters. We consider (1) leptophilic models of dark matter (DM) annihilation that include a Sommerfeld enhancement (SFE), (2) ...

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