U(1) mediation of flux supersymmetry breaking

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Grimm, Thomas W ^a   Klemm, Albrecht ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Flux compactifications; Superstring vacua; Supersymmetric effective theories; Supersymmetry breaking

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149286386     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/10/077     Document Type: Article

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