Production of a sterile species via active-sterile mixing: An exactly solvable model

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 76, Issue 10, 2007, Pages

  Boyanovsky, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

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EID: 36048990116     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.76.103514     Document Type: Article

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