Increasing Neff with particles in thermal equilibrium with neutrinos

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Bœhm, Céline ^a,b   Dolan, Matthew J ^a   McCabe, Christopher ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SAVOIE   (France)

Author keywords

big bang nucleosynthesis; cosmological neutrinos; cosmological parameters from CMBR; particle physics cosmology connection

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871740221     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2012/12/027     Document Type: Article

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