SU(5) unified theories from intersecting branes

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 97-119

  Axenides, Minos ^a   Floratos, Emmanuel ^a,b   Kokorelis, Christos ^c  

^a NCSR Demokritos Athens   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Beyond Standard Model; Compactification and String Models; D branes; GUT

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044453118     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2003/10/006     Document Type: Review

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