Dark spinor models in gravitation and cosmology

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Böhmer, Christian G ^a   Burnett, James ^a   Mota, David F ^b   Shaw, Douglas J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Beyond Standard Model; Cosmology of theories beyond the SM

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954989642     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP07(2010)053     Document Type: Article

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