Electroweak baryogenesis and the expansion rate of the Universe

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1875-1878

  Joyce, Michael ^a  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

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EID: 0000283245     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.55.1875     Document Type: Article

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