Heart of darkness: The significance of the zeptobarn scale for neutralino direct detection

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Feng, Jonathan L ^a   Sanford, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

dark matter simulations; dark matter theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957969855     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2011/05/018     Document Type: Article

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