A novel method to extract dark matter parameters from neutrino telescope data

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Esmaili, Arman ^a,b   Farzan, Yasaman ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN FUNDAMENTAL SCIENCES IPM   (Iran)

Author keywords

dark matter detectors; dark matter theory; neutrino detectors; neutrino properties

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955571121     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2011/04/007     Document Type: Article

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