Thermal right-handed neutrino production rate in the non-relativistic regime

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Laine, M ^a   Schroder Y ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Neutrino physics; NLO computations; Thermal field theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857880538     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP02(2012)068     Document Type: Article

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