BBN with electron-sterile neutrino oscillations - The finest leptometer

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Kirilova, Daniela ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ASTRONOMY   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

big bang nucleosynthesis; leptogenesis; neutrino properties

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863471616     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2012/06/007     Document Type: Article

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