The unbearable lightness of being: CDMS versus XENON

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Frandsen, Mads T ^a   Kahlhoefer, Felix ^b   McCabe, Christopher ^c   Sarkar, Subir ^b   Schmidt Hoberg, Kai ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Dark matter detectors; Dark matter experiments; Dark matter theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880658093     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2013/07/023     Document Type: Article

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