Lightest sterile neutrino abundance within the νmSM

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2007, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Asaka, Takehiko ^a   Shaposhnikov, Mikhail ^a   Laine, Mikko ^b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cosmology of theories beyond the SM; Neutrino physics; Thermal field theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947633533     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/01/091     Document Type: Article

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