Inflating in a better racetrack

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2006, Issue 9, 2006, Pages

  Blanco Pillado, Jose Juan ^a   Burgess, Cliff P ^b,c   Cline, James M ^d   Escoda, Cristina ^e   Gómez Reino, Marta ^f   Kallosh, Renata ^g   Linde, Andrei ^g   Quevedo, Fernando ^e  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Canada)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^g STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM; D branes; Superstring Vacua; Supersymmetry Phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749395132     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2006/09/002     Document Type: Article

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