Cosmological bounds on sub-MeV mass axions

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Cadamuro, Davide ^a   Hannestad, Steen ^b   Raffelt, Georg ^a   Redondo, Javier ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK   (Germany)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

axions; big bang nucleosynthesis; cosmological neutrinos

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952578712     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2011/02/003     Document Type: Article

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