Cycloops: Dark matter or a monopole problem for brane inflation?

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn , Issue 8, 2005, Pages 2311-2326

  Avgoustidis, Anastasios ^a   Shellard, E Paul S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM; D branes

Indexed keywords

EID: 24944453421     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2005/08/092     Document Type: Article

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