Moduli dark matter and the search for its decay line using Suzaku x-ray telescope
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Alexander Kusenko, Michael Loewenstein, and Tsutomu T. Yanagida Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095-1547, USA Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8568, Japan Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA CRESST and X-ray Astrophysics Laboratory NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, Maryland 20770, USA (Received 27 September 2012; published 4 February 2013)
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