Isocurvature forecast in the anthropic axion window

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Hamann, J ^a   Hannestad, S ^b   Raffelt, G G ^c   Wong, Y Y Y ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SAVOIE   (France)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK   (Germany)

^d CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Axions; Cosmological parameters from CMBR; Dark matter theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350689682     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2009/06/022     Document Type: Article

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