Physics implications of flat directions in free fermionic superstring models. I. Mass spectrum and couplings

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 1999, Pages

  Cleaver, G ^a,b   Cvetic M ^a   Espinosa, J R ^a   Everett, L ^a,c   Langacker, P ^a   Wang, J ^a  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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EID: 16644392594     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.59.055005     Document Type: Article

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