Comparing brane inflation to WMAP

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn , Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Bean, Rachel ^a   Shandera, Sarah E ^b   Henry Tye, S H ^c   Xu, Jiajun ^c  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c Newman Laboratory for Elementary Particle Physics   (United States)

Author keywords

CMBR experiments; Inflation; String theory and cosmology

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547574749     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2007/05/004     Document Type: Article

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