Axinos as dark matter

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2001, Pages

  Covi, Laura ^a,b   Kim, Hang Bae ^b   Kim, Jihn E ^c   Roszkowski, Leszek ^d  

^a DESY   (Germany)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^d CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cosmology of theories beyond the sm; Dark matter; Supersymmetric standard model

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744746620     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2001/05/033     Document Type: Article

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