Low scale inflation and the curvaton mechanism

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn , Issue 2, 2005, Pages 1373-1406

  Dimopoulos, Konstantinos ^a   Lyth, David H ^a   Rodríguez, Yelnzon ^a,b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM; Thermal Field Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 27344447613     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2005/02/055     Document Type: Article

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