Direct detection of WIMPs: Implications of a self-consistent truncated isothermal model of the Milky Way's dark matter halo

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Chaudhury, Soumini ^a   Bhattacharjee, Pijushpani ^a   Cowsik, Ramanath ^b  

^a SAHA INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (India)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dark matter experiments; Dark matter theory; Rotation curves of galaxies

Indexed keywords

EID: 78449271718     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2010/09/020     Document Type: Article

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