Observable gravitational waves from inflation with small field excursions

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Hotchkiss, Shaun ^a   Mazumdar, Anupam ^b,c   Nadathur, Seshadri ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cosmological parameters from CMBR; gravitational waves and CMBR polarization; inflation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857847120     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2012/02/008     Document Type: Article

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