Search for an annual modulation of dark-matter signals with a germanium spectrometer at the Sierra Grande Laboratory
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Results of a search for dark-matter induced annual modulation using 830.5 kg·days of data collected at the Sierra Grande underground laboratory with a germanium detector are presented. The analysis of the data does not show ∗Present address: Laboratory for High Energy Physics, University of Bern, Sidlerstrasse 5, CH 3012, Bern, Switzerland. †Present address: Department of Physik E15, Technische Universität München, James Franck Strasse, 85748 Garching, Germany.
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