Surveying standard model flux vacua on T6/ℤ2 × ℤ2

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn , Issue 9, 2005, Pages

  Kumar, Jason ^a   Wells, James D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

D branes; Superstring Vacua; Supersymmetry Breaking; Supersymmetry Phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 26044480319     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2005/09/067     Document Type: Review

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