Thermal inflation, baryogenesis and axions

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Kim, Seongcheol ^a   Park, Wan Ii ^a   Stewart, Ewan D ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Baryogenesis; Cosmology of theories beyond the SM; Supersymmetry phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 62649122978     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/01/015     Document Type: Article

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