Sparticle spectra and LHC signatures for large volume string compactifications

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2007, Issue 8, 2007, Pages

  Conlon, Joseph P ^a   Kom, Chun Hay ^a   Suruliz, Kerim ^a   Allanach, Benjamin C ^a   Quevedo, Fernando ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Compactification and string models; Supersymmetry phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953234493     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/08/061     Document Type: Article

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