Evidence for dark matter modulation in CoGeNT?

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Arina, Chiara ^a   Hamann, Jan ^b   Trotta, Roberto ^c   Wong, Yvonne Y Y ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

dark matter experiments; dark matter theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858778372     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2012/03/008     Document Type: Article

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