Leptogenesis with heavy neutrino flavours: From density matrix to Boltzmann equations

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Blanchet, Steve ^a   Di Bari, Pasquale ^b   David, A Jones ^b   Marzola, Luca ^b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

baryon asymmetry; cosmological neutrinos; leptogenesis; physics of the early universe

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873644483     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2013/01/041     Document Type: Article

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