Where are ELKO spinor fields in Lounesto spinor field classification?

Modern Physics Letters A

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 65-74

  Da Rocha, R ^a   Rodrigues Jr , W A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Bilinear covariants; Dark matter; Flagpole spinor fields; Majorana spinors fields

Indexed keywords

EID: 32644432430     PISSN: 02177323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0217732306018482     Document Type: Article

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