A novel way of constraining WIMPs annihilations in the Sun: MeV neutrinos

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Bernal, Nicolás ^a   Martín Albo, Justo ^b   Palomares Ruiz, Sergio ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

dark matter theory; neutrino detectors; neutrino experiments

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883608245     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2013/08/011     Document Type: Article

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