Anthropic explanation of the dark matter abundance

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Freivogel, Ben ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Axions; Dark matter theory; Initial conditions and eternal universe

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950233710     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2010/03/021     Document Type: Article

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