Searching for standard clocks in the primordial universe

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Chen, Xingang ^a   Ringeval, Christophe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

CMBR theory; cosmological parameters from CMBR; inflation; physics of the early universe

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865254381     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2012/08/014     Document Type: Article

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