Restrictions on the lifetime of sterile neutrinos from primordial nucleosynthesis

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Ruchayskiy, Oleg ^a   Ivashko, Artem ^b,c  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN   (Netherlands)

^c TARAS SHEVCHENKO NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF KYIV   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

big bang nucleosynthesis; cosmological neutrinos; neutrino theory; physics of the early universe

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868235980     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2012/10/014     Document Type: Article

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