Sterile neutrinos and indirect dark matter searches in IceCube

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Argüelles, Carlos A ^a,b   Kopp, Joachim ^b  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL PERÚ   (Peru)

^b FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

dark matter theory; neutrino astronomy; neutrino theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864447457     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2012/07/016     Document Type: Article

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