Stable and metastable vacua in SQCD

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 796, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 25-43

  Giveon, Amit ^a   Kutasov, David ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Field theory; Supersymmetry

Indexed keywords

EID: 39749161748     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2007.11.037     Document Type: Article

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