The curvaton as a pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone boson

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1271-1295

  Dimopoulos, Konstantinos ^a,b   Lyth, David H ^a   Notari, Alessio ^c   Riotto, Antonio ^d  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE   (Italy)

^d SEZIONE DI PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

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

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EID: 23144438732     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2003/07/053     Document Type: Article

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