Prospects for identifying dark matter with CoGeNT

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Kelso, Chris ^a   Hooper, Dan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NASA FERMILAB ASTROPHYSICS CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

dark matter detectors; dark matter experiments; dark matter theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952603661     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2011/02/002     Document Type: Article

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