Towards leptogenesis at NLO: The right-handed neutrino interaction rate

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Salvio, Alberto ^a,c   Lodone, Paolo ^b,c,d   Strumia, Alessandro ^b,c,d  

^a SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c INFN SEZIONE DI PISA   (Italy)

^d NICPB   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Neutrino physics; Thermal field theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053111934     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP08(2011)116     Document Type: Article

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