Calculating exclusion limits for weakly interacting massive particle direct detection experiments without background subtraction

Physical Review D

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2002, Pages

  Green, Anne M ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ATOMIC PARTICLE; CALCULATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; PROBABILITY; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 4243804391     PISSN: 05562821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.65.023520     Document Type: Article

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