New instanton effects in supersymmetric QCD

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn , Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1297-1331

  Beasley, Chris ^a   Witten, Edward ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

QCD; Solitons Monopoles and Instantons; Supersymmetric Effective Theories; Supersymmetry and Duality

Indexed keywords

EID: 27344435627     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2005/01/056     Document Type: Article

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