Towards an accurate calculation of the neutralino relic density

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2001, Pages

  Nihei, Takeshi ^a   Roszkowski, Leszek ^b   De Austri, Roberte Ruiz ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cosmology of theories beyond the sm; Dark matter; Supersymmetric effective theories

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744748023     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2001/05/063     Document Type: Article

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