Can CoGeNT and DAMA modulations be due to Dark Matter?

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Farina, Marco ^a   Pappadopulo, Duccio ^b   Strumia, Alessandro ^c,d   Volansky, Tomer ^e,f  

^a SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE   (Italy)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS AND BIOPHYSICS   (Estonia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

dark matter experiments; dark matter theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 82955219750     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2011/11/010     Document Type: Article

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