Solar axion flux from the axion-electron coupling

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Redondo, Javier ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

axions; dark matter experiments; solar physics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891752471     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2013/12/008     Document Type: Article

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