Effective action for the Abelian Higgs model in FLRW

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  George, Damien P ^a   Mooij, Sander ^a   Postma, Marieke ^a  

^a NIKHEF   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

particle physics cosmology connection; quantum field theory on curved space

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870273905     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2012/11/043     Document Type: Article

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