The evolution and persistence of dumbbells

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 721-734

  Urrestilla, Jon ^a,b   Achúcarro, Ana ^a,c,d   Borrill, Julian ^e,f   Liddle, Andrew R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^e LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmological Phase Transitions; Solitons Monopoles and Instantons; Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044509497     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2002/08/033     Document Type: Article

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