The QCD axion, precisely

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2016, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 1-37

  di Cortona, Giovanni Grilli ^a   Hardy, Edward ^b   Vega, Javier Pardo ^a,b   Villadoro, Giovanni ^b  

^a SISSA   (Italy)

^b ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

Author keywords

Beyond Standard Model; Chiral Lagrangians; Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM

Indexed keywords

EID: 84953715455     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP01(2016)034     Document Type: Article

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