WIMP abundance and lepton (flavour) asymmetry

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Stuke, Maik ^a   Schwarz, Dominik J ^a   Starkman, Glenn ^b  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cosmological neutrinos; dark matter theory; particle physics cosmology connection; physics of the early universe

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896693971     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2012/03/040     Document Type: Article

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