A dark matter candidate from an extra (non-universal) dimension

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2007, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Regis, Marco ^a   Serone, Marco ^a   Ullio, Piero ^a  

^a SISSA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Compactification and string models; Cosmology of theories beyond the SM; Field theories in higher dimensions

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947679315     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/03/084     Document Type: Article

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