Dark matter as the trigger of strong electroweak phase transition

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Chowdhury, Talal Ahmed ^a   Nemevek, Miha ^b,c   Senjanović, Goran ^b   Zhang, Yue ^b  

^a SISSA   (Italy)

^b ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

^c JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

baryon asymmetry; cosmological phase transitions; dark matter theory; physics of the early universe

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863289830     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2012/02/029     Document Type: Article

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