Probing the local velocity distribution of WIMP dark matter with directional detectors

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Lee, Samuel K ^a,b   G Peter, Annika H ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

dark matter detectors; dark matter experiments; Dark matter theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860514170     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2012/04/029     Document Type: Article

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