Detectability of inflation-produced gravitational waves
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Detectability of inflation-produced gravitational waves
Introduction Inflation addresses most of the fundamental problems in cosmology – the origin of the flatness, large-scale smoothness, and small density inhomogeneities needed to seed all the structure seen in the Universe today. If correct, it would extend our understanding of the Universe to as early as 10−32 sec and open a window on physics at energies of order 10 GeV. However, at the moment t...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review D
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0556-2821,1089-4918
DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.55.r435