Naturally light hidden photons in LARGE volume string compactifications

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Goodsell, Mark ^a,c   Jaeckel, Joerg ^b   Redondo, Javier ^c,d   Ringwald, Andreas ^c  

^a LPTHE   (France)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c DESY   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Strings and branes phenomenology; Supersymmetry phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449916282     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/11/027     Document Type: Article

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