Experimental searches for galactic halo axions

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 361, Issue 1812, 2003, Pages 2553-2567

  Van Bibber, Karl A ^a   Darin Kinion, S ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Axion; Cosmology; Dark matter; Microwave cavity experiment; Particle physics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242678295     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2003.1292     Document Type: Conference Paper

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