Dark radiation and dark matter in large volume compactifications

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Higaki, Tetsutaro ^a   Takahashi, Fuminobu ^b  

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Strings and branes phenomenology; Supersymmetry Phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870340353     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP11(2012)125     Document Type: Article

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