A naturally light sterile neutrino in an asymmetric dark matter model

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Zhang, Yongchao ^a,b   Ji, Xiangdong ^a,b,c   Mohapatra, Rabindra N ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b University of Maryland   (United States)

^c SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Beyond Standard Model; Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM; Neutrino Physics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892761218     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP10(2013)104     Document Type: Article

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