The standard and degenerate primordial nucleosynthesis versus recent experimental data

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 4, Issue 9 PART B, 2000, Pages 21-27

  Esposito, Salvatore ^a   Mangano, Gianpeiro ^a   Miele, Gennaro ^a   Pisanti, Ofelia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dark Matter; Physics of the Early Universe; Related Astrophysics (Neutron Stars, Supernovae etc.)

Indexed keywords

EID: 7044232069     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2000/09/038     Document Type: Article

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