Can decaying particles raise the upperbound on the Peccei-Quinn scale?

Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics

Volumn 383, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 313-316

  Kawasaki, M ^a   Moroi, T ^b   Yanagida, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 0000432981     PISSN: 03702693     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0370-2693(96)00743-5     Document Type: Article

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