Production of a sterile species: Quantum kinetics

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 76, Issue 8, 2007, Pages

  Boyanovsky, D ^a   Ho, C M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

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EID: 35348928214     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.76.085011     Document Type: Article

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