Pseudomoduli dark matter and quiver gauge theories

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Amariti, Antonio ^a   Girardello, Luciano ^a   Mariotti, Alberto ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b INTERNATIONAL SOLVAY INSTITUTES   (Belgium)

^c FWO Vlaanderen   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Cosmology of theories beyond the SM; D branes; Supersymmetry and duality; Supersymmetry breaking

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955001573     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP07(2010)072     Document Type: Article

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