Limit on the Detectability of the Energy Scale of Inflation

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2002, Pages

  Knox, Lloyd ^a   Song, Yong Seon ^a  

^a Department of Physics ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; APPROXIMATION THEORY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; GALAXIES; GRAVITY WAVES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MICROWAVES; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; RADIATION DETECTORS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TENSORS;

COSMOLOGICAL MODELS; POWER SPECTRUM;

ASTROPHYSICS;

EID: 0036642088     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.011303     Document Type: Article

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