Supercooling and phase coexistence in cosmological phase transitions

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Mégevand, Ariel ^a,b   Sánchez, Alejandro D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MAR DEL PLATA   (Argentina)

^b Universidad Nacional del Litoral   (Argentina)

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EID: 41549088743     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.77.063519     Document Type: Article

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