Nielsen-olesen strings in supersymmetric models

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1133-1143

  Pickles, Mike ^a   Urrestilla, Jon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cosmological Phase Transitions; Solitons Monopoles and Instantons; Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking; Supersymmetric Effective Theories

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044445670     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2003/01/052     Document Type: Article

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