Thermal production of relativistic Majorana neutrinos: Strong enhancement by multiple soft scattering

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Anisimov, Alexey ^a   Besak, Denis ^a   Bödeker, Dietrich ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

baryon asymmetry; leptogenesis; physics of the early universe

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953661835     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2011/03/042     Document Type: Article

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