Cosmic strings in the Abelian Higgs model with conformal coupling to gravity

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 59, Issue 10, 1999, Pages

  Verbin, Y ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

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EID: 85037902034     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.59.105015     Document Type: Article

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