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Particle components of dark matter
Pages 53-58

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  • scalar masses
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  • cold dark
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  • lower limit
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  • relic density
  • upper limits
  • underground experiments
  • upper limit
  • nucleon spin

  • cosmological density
  • cross section
  • postulating pairs
  • mass scale
  • increasingly strong

  • strong lower
  • cosmic background
  • local halo
  • major strategies
  • standard theory

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