Primordial nucleosynthesis constraints on Z′ properties

Physical Review D

Volumn 67, Issue 7, 2003, Pages

  Barger, Vernon ^a   Langacker, Paul ^a,b   Lee, Hye Sung ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE; MASS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PHASE TRANSITION; SYNTHESIS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

EID: 0038777310     PISSN: 05562821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.67.075009     Document Type: Article

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