Revisiting XENON100's constraints (and signals?) for low-mass dark matter

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Hooper, Dan ^a,b  

^a FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

dark matter experiments; dark matter theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887571049     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2013/09/035     Document Type: Article

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