A model independent safeguard against background mismodeling for statistical inference

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2017, Issue 5, 2017, Pages

  Priel, Nadav ^a   Rauch, Ludwig ^b   Landsman, Hagar ^a   Manfredini, Alessandro ^a   Budnik, Ranny ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KERNPHYSIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

dark matter detectors; Dark matter experiments; dark matter simulations

Indexed keywords

EID: 85035215191     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2017/05/013     Document Type: Article

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