SU (5) orientifolds, Yukawa couplings, stringy instantons and proton decay

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 829, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 298-324

  Kiritsis, Elias ^a   Lennek, Michael ^b   Schellekens, Bert ^c,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b CENTRE DE PHYSIQUE THÉORIQUE   (France)

^c NIKHEF   (Netherlands)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^e INSTITUTO DE FÍSICA FUNDAMENTAL   (Spain)

Author keywords

String phenomenology; Stringy instantons

Indexed keywords

EID: 73749083583     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2009.12.012     Document Type: Article

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