D-brane inspired fermion mass textures

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Leontaris, G K ^a,b   Vlachos, N D ^c  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Strings and branes phenomenology

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EID: 77954979939     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP01(2010)016     Document Type: Article

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