Thermal and non-thermal production of gravitinos in the early universe

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 1999, Pages

  Giudice, Gian Francesco ^a   Riotto, Antonio ^a,b   Tkachev, Igor ^a  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM; Physics of the Early Universe

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645911496     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/1999/11/036     Document Type: Article

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