Direct detection constraints on superheavy dark matter

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 22, 2003, Pages 2213011-2213014

  Albuquerque, Ivone F M ^a   Baudis, Laura ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONS; ENERGY DISSIPATION; RADIOACTIVITY; VELOCITY;

SUPERMASSIVE PARTICLES;

ASTRONOMY;

EID: 0038454629     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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