Inelastic dark matter, non-standard halos and the DAMA/LIBRA results

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  March Russell, John ^a   McCabe, Christopher ^a   McCullough, Matthew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Beyond standard model; Cosmology of theories beyond the SM

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649522184     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/05/071     Document Type: Article

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