The B-L/electroweak hierarchy in heterotic string and M-theory

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Ambroso, Michael ^b   Ovrut, Burt A ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

String Field Theory; Superstrings and Heterotic Strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 71449095412     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/10/011     Document Type: Article

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