Constraints on cosmic opacity and beyond the standard model physics from cosmological distance measurements

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Avgoustidis, Anastasios ^a   Burrage, Clare ^b   Redondo, Javier ^c   Verde, Licia ^d   Jimenez, Raul ^d  

^a CMS   (United Kingdom)

^b DESY   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Axions; Cosmological parameters from lss; Dark energy theory; Supernova type la Standard candles

Indexed keywords

EID: 78449305404     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2010/10/024     Document Type: Article

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