Multifield inflation after Planck: The case for nonminimal couplings

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Kaiser, David I ^a   Sfakianakis, Evangelos I ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUNDS; INITIAL CONDITIONS; LOW POWER; MEASUREMENTS OF; MULTI-FIELD; MULTI-FIELD MODEL; MULTIPOLES; SPECTRAL INDICES;

ATOMIC PHYSICS; PHYSICS;

COUPLINGS;

EID: 84892413369     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.011302     Document Type: Article

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