The masses of weakly-coupled scalar fields in the early Universe

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 69-91

  Lyth, David H ^a   Moroi, Takeo ^b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM; Physics of the Early Universe

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EID: 23044463637     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2004/05/004     Document Type: Article

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