Electroweak-scale inflation, inflaton-Higgs mixing and the scalar spectral index

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn , Issue 7, 2004, Pages 25-45

  Van Tent, Bartjan ^a   Smit, Jan ^b   Tranberg, Anders ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Baryon asymmetry; CMBR theory; Inflation; Physics of the early universe

Indexed keywords

EID: 23244464643     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2004/07/003     Document Type: Article

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