Curvaton dynamics

Physical Review D

Volumn 68, Issue 12, 2003, Pages

  Dimopoulos, K ^a,b   Lazarides, G ^c   Lyth, D H ^a   Ruiz De Austri, Roberto ^c  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

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EID: 0842325975     PISSN: 05562821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.68.123515     Document Type: Article

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