Formation rate of semilocal strings

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 82, Issue 19, 1999, Pages 3742-3745

  Achúcarro, Ana ^a,b   Borrill, Julian ^c   Liddle, Andrew R ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 3442876316     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.3742     Document Type: Article

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