Halo-independent analysis of direct detection data for light WIMPs

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Del Nobile, Eugenio ^a   Gelmini, Graciela B ^a   Gondolo, Paolo ^b   Huh, Ji Haeng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

dark energy theory; dark matter experiments

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887586454     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2013/10/026     Document Type: Article

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