Cosmological constraints on axionic dark radiation from axion-photon conversion in the early Universe

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Higaki, Tetsutaro ^a   Nakayama, Kazunori ^b   Takahashi, Fuminobu ^b,c  

^a HIGH ENERGY ACCELERATOR RESEARCH ORGANIZATION KEK   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

axions; particle physics cosmology connection; physics of the early universe

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884829789     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2013/09/030     Document Type: Article

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