The Extragalactic Background Light (EBL): A Probe of Fundamental Physics and a Record of Structure Formation in the Universe

2013/04/30 by Krennrich, Frank, Orr, Matthew
#FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1304.8057

Abstract

A brief white paper discussing the connections between the Extragalactic Background Light (EBL) and fundamental physics through gamma-ray observations is provided.

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