The dark side of the electroweak phase transition

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Das, Subinoy ^a   Fox, Patrick J ^b   Kumar, Abhishek ^c   Weiner, Neal ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmology of theories beyond the SM; Higgs physics

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649696860     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP11(2010)108     Document Type: Article

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