Heavy fields, reduced speeds of sound, and decoupling during inflation

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 86, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Achúcarro, Ana ^a,b   Atal, Vicente ^a   Céspedes, Sebastián ^c   Gong, Jinn Ouk ^d   Palma, Gonzalo A ^c   Patil, Subodh P ^e  

^a UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^c DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Chile)

^d CERN   (Switzerland)

^e CENTRE DE PHYSIQUE THÉORIQUE   (France)

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EID: 84870608165     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.86.121301     Document Type: Article

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