Mirror world, supersymmetric axion and gamma ray bursts

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 975-994

  Gianfagna, Leonida ^a,b   Giannotti, Maurizio ^c   Nesti, Fabrizio ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^b LABORATORI NAZIONALI DEL GRAN SASSO   (Italy)

^c INFN SEZIONE DI FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM; CP violation; Global Symmetries

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044470748     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2004/10/044     Document Type: Article

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