Aberration features in directional dark matter detection

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 8, 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 Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

dark matter experiments; dark matter theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865207672     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2012/08/011     Document Type: Article

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