Towards a realistic picture of CP violation in heterotic string models

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 135-147

  Lebedev, Oleg ^a   Morris, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CP violation; Superstrings and Heterotic Strings; Supersymmetry Breaking; Supersymmetry Phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044507969     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2002/08/007     Document Type: Article

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