Bubble-nucleation rates for cosmological phase transitions

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 1999, Pages

  Strumia, Alessandro ^a   Tetradis, Nikolaos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cosmological Phase Transitions; Thermal Field Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645903579     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/1999/11/023     Document Type: Article

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