Search for muon signal from dark matter annihilations in the Sun with the Baksan Underground Scintillator Telescope for 24.12 years

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Boliev, M M ^a   Demidov, S V ^b   Mikheyev, S P ^b   Suvorova, O V ^b  

^a RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^b INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

dark matter experiments; neutrino astronomy; neutrino experiments; solar and atmospheric neutrinos

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884823264     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2013/09/019     Document Type: Article

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