Supersymmetric inflation with constraints on superheavy neutrino masses

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 1324-1327

  Lazarides, G ^a   Schaefer, R K ^b   Shafi, Q ^b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

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EID: 0000810627     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.56.1324     Document Type: Article

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