Feeding your inflaton: Non-Gaussian signatures of interaction structure

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Barnaby, Neil ^a   Shandera, Sarah ^b  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CMBR theory; inflation; non gaussianity; particle physics cosmology connection

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856630459     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2012/01/034     Document Type: Article

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