A Search for Solar Neutralino Dark Matter with the AMANDA-II Neutrino Telescope

A relic density of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) remaining from the Big Bang constitutes a promising solution to the Dark Matter problem. It is possible for such WIMPs to be trapped by and accumulate in gravitational potentials of massive dense objects such as the Sun. A perfect WIMP...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Burgess, Thomas
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Stockholms universitet, Fysikum 2008
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Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-7378
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