On mass hierarchies in orientifold vacua

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Anastasopoulos, Pascal ^a,c   Kiritsis, Elias ^b   Lionetto, Andrea ^a  

^a INFN SEZIONE DI ROMA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

D branes; Quark masses and SM parameters; Standard model

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350060128     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/08/026     Document Type: Article

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