The Peccei-Quinn field as curvaton

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1349-1379

  Dimopoulos, Konstantinos ^a,b   Lazarides, George ^c   Lyth, David H ^a   Ruiz De Austri, Roberto ^c  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cosmological Phase Transitions; Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM; Physics of the Early Universe

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744992015     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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