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How thermal inflation can save minimal hybrid inflation in supergravity. / Dimopoulos, Konstantinos; Owen, Charlotte.
In: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Vol. 16, No. 10, 20, 12.10.2016.

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Dimopoulos K, Owen C. How thermal inflation can save minimal hybrid inflation in supergravity. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2016 Oct 12;16(10):20. doi: 10.1088/1475-7516/2016/10/020

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Dimopoulos, Konstantinos ; Owen, Charlotte. / How thermal inflation can save minimal hybrid inflation in supergravity. In: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2016 ; Vol. 16, No. 10.

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