Stringent phenomenological investigation into heterotic string optical unification

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Perkins, J ^a   Dundee, B ^a   Obousy, R ^a   Hatten, S ^a,b   Kasper, E ^a,c   Robinson, M ^a,d   Sloan, C ^a,e   Stone, K ^a,f   Cleaver, G ^a  

^a BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Walla Walla College   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Department of Geology and Environmental Geosciences   (United States)

^f EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33846479433     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.75.026007     Document Type: Article

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