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Title: Natural seesaw and leptogenesis from hybrid of high-scale type I and TeV-scale inverse
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Award ID(s):
1719877
Publication Date:
NSF-PAR ID:
10100292
Journal Name:
Journal of High Energy Physics
Volume:
2019
Issue:
4
ISSN:
1029-8479
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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