Visible sector inflation and the right thermal history in light of Planck data

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Wang, Lingfei ^a   Pukartas, Ernestas ^a   Mazumdar, Anupam ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cosmological perturbation theory; Inflation; Supersymmetry and cosmology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880649007     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2013/07/019     Document Type: Review

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