Sub-GeV dark matter as Pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone bosons from the seesaw scale

Physical Review X

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Frigerio, Michele ^a,b   Hambye, Thomas ^c   Masso, Eduard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ MONTPELLIER 2   (France)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Particles and fields

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATE SYMMETRY; DARK MATTER; ELECTROWEAK SCALE; HIGGS BOSON; STERILE NEUTRINOS; YUKAWA COUPLINGS;

NEUTRONS;

BOSONS;

EID: 84861836118     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21603308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.1.021026     Document Type: Article

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