F-theory and experiment

Contemporary Physics

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 331-348

  Heckman, Jonathan J ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

Experiment; F theory; Guts; String phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953929942     PISSN: 00107514     EISSN: 13665812     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00107514.2010.486930     Document Type: Article

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