D-branes at toric singularities: Model building, Yukawa couplings and flavour physics

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Krippendorf, Sven ^a   Dolan, Matthew J ^a   Maharana, Anshuman ^a   Quevedo, Fernando ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

Author keywords

Strings and branes phenomenology

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EID: 77955005611     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP06(2010)092     Document Type: Article

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