Towards realistic string vacua from branes at singularities

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Conlon, Joseph P ^a   Maharana, Anshuman ^b   Quevedo, Fernando ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Strings and branes phenomenology

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EID: 67650228064     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/05/109     Document Type: Article

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