The inflating curvaton

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Dimopoulos, Konstantinos ^a   Kohri, Kazunori ^b   Lyth, David H ^a   Matsuda, Tomohiro ^a,c  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^c SAITAMA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

alternatives to inflation; inflation; physics of the early universe

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858717457     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2012/03/022     Document Type: Article

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