Gravitino dark matter and general neutralino NLSP

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Covi, L ^a   Hasenkamp, J ^a,b   Pokorski, S ^c   Roberts, J ^d  

^a DESY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmology of theories beyond the SM; Supersymmetric standard model

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449972542     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/11/003     Document Type: Article

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