Effects of residue background events in direct dark matter detection experiments on the determination of the WIMP mass

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Chou, Yu Ting ^a   Shan, Chung Lin ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR THEORETICAL SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Dark matter experiments; Dark matter simulations

Indexed keywords

EID: 78449291381     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2010/08/014     Document Type: Article

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