Bounds on direct couplings of superheavy metastable particles to the inflaton field from ultra high energy cosmic ray events

Modern Physics Letters A

Volumn 17, Issue 33, 2002, Pages 2179-2188

  Campos, A H ^a   Lengruber, L L ^b   Rosenfeld, R ^b   Reis, H C ^c   Sato, R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

High energy cosmic rays; Inflation; Reheating

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COSMOS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ENERGY; HEATING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEASUREMENT; PHYSICS;

EID: 0037202392     PISSN: 02177323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0217732302008915     Document Type: Article

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