Mixed axion/neutralino cold dark matter in supersymmetric models

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Baer, Howard ^a   Lessa, Andre ^a   Rajagopalan, Shibi ^a,b   Sreethawong, Warintorn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

axions; dark matter theory; supersymmetry and cosmology

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959966028     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2011/06/031     Document Type: Article

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