Decaying into the hidden sector

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Rudermana, Joshua T ^a   Volansky, Tomer ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beyond standard model; Cosmology of theories beyond the SM

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954939485     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP02(2010)024     Document Type: Article

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