Building the standard model on a D3-brane

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2007, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Verlinde, Herman ^a   Wijnholt, Martijn ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Intersecting branes models; Superstring vacua

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947689211     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/01/106     Document Type: Article

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