Decay of heavy Majorana neutrinos studied using the full Boltzmann equation, including its implications for leptogenesis

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn , Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Basbøll, Anders ^a   Hannestad, Steen ^a,b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cosmological neutrinos; Physics of the early universe

Indexed keywords

EID: 37649026545     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2007/01/003     Document Type: Article

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