Captures of hot and warm sterile antineutrino dark matter on EC-decaying 63Ho nuclei

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Li, Y F ^a   Xing, Zhi Zhong ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

cosmological neutrinos; dark matter theory; neutrino detectors; neutrino masses from cosmology

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052524003     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2011/08/006     Document Type: Article

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