Is "Just-so" higgs splitting needed for t-b-τ yukawa unified SUSY GUTs?

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Baer, Howard ^a   Kraml, Sabine ^b   Sekmen, Sezen ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b GRENOBLE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (France)

^c 513 Keen Building ^*  (United States)

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Supersymmetry Phenomenology

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EID: 70350022233     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/09/005     Document Type: Article

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