Contact interactions in D-brane models

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2001, Pages

  Antoniadis, Ignatios ^a,c   Benakli, Karim ^a   Laugier, Alexandre ^b  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Beyond standard model; Compactification and string models; D branes; Extra large dimensions

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744748637     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2001/05/044     Document Type: Article

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