Higgs inflation: Consistency and generalisations

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Bezrukov, F ^a,c   Magnin, A ^b   Shaposhnikov, M ^b   Sibiryakov, S ^b,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KERNPHYSIK   (Germany)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Cosmology of theories beyond the SM; Global symmetries; Standard Model

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952215008     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP01(2011)016     Document Type: Article

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