The minimal N = 4 no-scale model from generalized dimensional reduction

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1327-1355

  Villadoro, Giovanni ^a   Zwirner, Fabio ^b  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITÀ DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Extended Supersymmetry; Field Theories in Higher Dimensions; Supergravity Models; Supersymmetry Breaking

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044481803     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2004/07/055     Document Type: Article

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