Building MSSM flux vacua

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1125-1158

  Marchesano, Fernando ^a   Shiu, Gary ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

Compactification and String Models; D branes; Superstring Vacua; Supersymmetric Standard Model

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044443941     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2004/11/041     Document Type: Article

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