Neutrino probes of the nature of light dark matter

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Agarwalla, Sanjib Kumar ^a   Blennow, Mattias ^b   Martinez, Enrique Fernandez ^c   Mena, Olga ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK   (Germany)

^c CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Dark matter experiments; neutrino detectors

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053552854     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2011/09/004     Document Type: Article

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