Testing the Dark Matter interpretation of the DAMA/LIBRA result with Super-Kamiokande

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Feng, Jonathan L ^a   Kumar, Jason ^a,b   Learned, John ^b   Strigari, Louis E ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dark matter; Neutrino detectors

Indexed keywords

EID: 62649083756     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2009/01/032     Document Type: Article

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