Effects of squark processes on the axino CDM abundance

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 661-682

  Covi, Laura ^a   Roszkowski, Leszek ^b   Small, Michael ^b  

^a DESY   (Germany)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM; Dark Matter; Supersymmetric Effective Theories

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044443468     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2002/07/023     Document Type: Article

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