Diurnal modulation due to self-interacting mirror & hidden sector dark matter

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Foot, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

dark matter experiments; dark matter theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860147898     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2012/04/014     Document Type: Article

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