Thermal production of ultrarelativistic right-handed neutrinos: Complete leading-order results

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Besak, Denis ^a   Bödeker, Dietrich ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

baryon asymmetry; cosmology of theories beyond the SM; leptogenesis; physics of the early universe

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858727377     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2012/03/029     Document Type: Article

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