The small observed baryon asymmetry from a large lepton asymmetry

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 1999, Pages

  March Russell, John ^a   Riotto, Antonio ^b   Murayama, Hitoshi ^b  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645952392     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/1999/11/015     Document Type: Article

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