Thermal production of gravitinos

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 75, Issue 7, 2007, Pages

  Rychkov, Vyacheslav S ^a   Strumia, Alessandro ^b  

^a INFN SEZIONE DI PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

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EID: 34247199439     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.75.075011     Document Type: Article

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