Ring-like features in directional dark matter detection

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Bozorgnia, Nassim ^a   Gelmini, Graciela B ^a   Gondolo, Paolo ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

dark matter experiments; dark matter theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863424741     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2012/06/037     Document Type: Article

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