Soft SUSY breaking contributions to proton decay

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2006, Issue 10, 2006, Pages

  Berezhiani, Zurab ^a   Nesti, Fabrizio ^a   Pilo, Luigi ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Beyond Standard Model; GUT; Supersymmetric gauge theory; Supersymmetry Breaking

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846153606     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2006/10/030     Document Type: Review

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