Natural inflation with natural trans-planckian axion decay constant from anomalous U(1) X

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2014, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Li, Tianjun ^a,b   Li, Zhijin ^c   Nanopoulos, Dimitri V ^c,d,e  

^a INSTITUTE OF THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HOUSTON ADVANCED RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^e BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Greece)

Author keywords

Anomalies in Field and String Theories; Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM; Supergravity Models

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904362700     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP07(2014)052     Document Type: Article

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