Some necessary conditions for allowing the PQ scale as high as M GUT in SUSY models with an axino or neutralino LSP

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Baer, Howard ^a   Lessa, Andre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM; Supersymmetric Standard Model

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EID: 80053117111     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP06(2011)027     Document Type: Article

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