Metastable supergravity vacua with F and D supersymmetry breaking

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2007, Issue 8, 2007, Pages

  Gómez Reino, Marta ^a   Scrucca, Claudio A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Supergravity models; Supersymmetry breaking

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EID: 77953246255     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/08/091     Document Type: Article

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