Low-energy effective field theory for chromo-natural inflation

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Dimastrogiovanni, Emanuela ^a   Fasiello, Matteo ^b   Tolley, Andrew J ^b  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

axions; cosmological perturbation theory; inflation; non gaussianity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874735334     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2013/02/046     Document Type: Article

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