New sensitivity to solar WIMP annihilation using low-energy neutrinos
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Carsten Rott, Jennifer M. Siegal-Gaskins, and John F. Beacom Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics (CCAPP), The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA Department of Physics, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 440-746, Korea California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA Department of Astronomy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA (Received 3 August 2012; published 3 September 2013)
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