Sterile neutrinos, lepton asymmetries, primordial elements: How much of each?

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 74, Issue 8, 2006, Pages

  Chu, Yi Zen ^a   Cirelli, Marco ^a  

^a Yale University   (United States)

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EID: 33749857772     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.74.085015     Document Type: Article

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