Technical naturalness on a codimension-2 brane

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Burgess, C P ^a,b,c   Hoover, D ^d   Tasinato, G ^e  

^a PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c CERN   (Switzerland)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Field Theories in Higher Dimensions; Large Extra Dimensions

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350031109     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/06/014     Document Type: Article

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