Anisotropic dark matter distribution functions and impact on WIMP direct detection

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Bozorgnia, Nassim ^a   Catena, Riccardo ^b   Schwetz, Thomas ^a,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KERNPHYSIK   (Germany)

^b Institut Theoretische Physik   (Germany)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

dark energy theory; dark matter experiments; dark matter simulations; rotation curves of galaxies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891868224     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2013/12/050     Document Type: Article

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