MeV sterile neutrinos in low reheating temperature cosmological scenarios

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Gelmini, Graciela ^a,b   Osoba, Efunwande ^a   Palomares Ruiz, Sergio ^c   Pascoli, Silvia ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cosmological neutrinos; Neutrino properties; Physics of the early universe

Indexed keywords

EID: 56449112137     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2008/10/029     Document Type: Article

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