Isocurvature constraints and anharmonic effects on QCD axion dark matter

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Kobayashi, Takeshi ^a,b   Kurematsu, Ryosuke ^c   Takahashi, Fuminobu ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Canada)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

axions; cosmological perturbation theory; non gaussianity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884888415     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2013/09/032     Document Type: Article

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