A new cosmological mass limit on thermal relic axions

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn , Issue 7, 2005, Pages 11-26

  Hannestad, Steen ^a   Mirizzi, Alessandro ^b,c   Raffelt, Georg ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK   (Germany)

^c INFN SEZIONE DI BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Axions; Dark matter

Indexed keywords

EID: 23844438576     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2005/07/002     Document Type: Article

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