Towards a theory of flavor from orbifold GUTs

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 587-607

  Hall, Lawrence J ^a,b   March Russell, John ^a,c,d   Okui, Takemichi ^a,b,e   Smith, David R ^a,f  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CERN   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e Boston University ^*  (United States)

^f WILLIAMS COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Field Theories in Higher Dimensions; GUT; Quark Masses and SM Parameters

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044446584     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2004/09/026     Document Type: Article

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