Resolving astrophysical uncertainties in dark matter direct detection

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Frandsen, Mads T ^a,b   Kahlhoefer, Felix ^a   McCabe, Christopher ^a,c   Sarkar, Subir ^a   Schmidt Hoberg, Kai ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

dark matter detectors; dark matter experiments; dark matter theory; galaxy dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856659288     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2012/01/024     Document Type: Article

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