Improved constraints on inelastic dark matter

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Schmidt Hoberg, Kai ^a   Winkler, Martin Wolfgang ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dark matter detectors; Dark matter experiments; Dark matter theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350681838     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2009/09/010     Document Type: Article

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