Antideuteron based dark matter search with GAPS: Current progress and future prospects

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 290-296

  Hailey, C J ^a   Aramaki, T ^a   Boggs, S E ^b   Doetinchem, P V ^b   Fuke, H ^c   Gahbauer, F ^a   Koglin, J E ^a   Madden, N ^a   Mognet, S A I ^d   Ong, R ^d   Yoshida, T ^c   Zhang, T ^d   Zweerink, J A ^d  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Antideuteron; Dark matter; GAPS

Indexed keywords

BALLOONS; COSMOLOGY; HADRONS; X RAYS;

ANTIDEUTERONS; DARK MATTER; DARK MATTER SEARCHES; FULL-SCALE EXPERIMENT; GAPS; INDIRECT DETECTION; LONG DURATION BALLOONS; PROTOTYPE DETECTOR;

GALAXIES;

EID: 84872020525     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2011.04.025     Document Type: Article

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