Tunneling with negative tension

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 12, 2008, Pages

  Marvel, Kate ^a   Wesley, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cosmology of theories beyond the SM; Nonperturbative effects; Solitons monopoles and instantons

Indexed keywords

EID: 62649171255     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/12/034     Document Type: Article

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