Constraints on Majorana dark matter from a fourth lepton family

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2014, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 1-23

  Hapola, Tuomas ^a,b   Järvinen, Matti ^c   Kouvaris, Chris ^b   Panci, Paolo ^b,d   Virkajärvi, Jussi ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^d INSTITUT D'ASTROPHYSIQUE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

dark matter detectors; dark matter theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897675082     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2014/02/050     Document Type: Article

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