Superconformal flavor simplified

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Poland, David ^a   Simmons Duffin, David ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Quark masses and SM parameters; Renormalization group; Supersymmetric gauge theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955011425     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP05(2010)079     Document Type: Article

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