Elements of F-ast proton decay

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 846, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 43-99

  Li, Tianjun ^a,b   Nanopoulos, Dimitri V ^a,c,d   Walker, Joel W ^e  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (China)

^c HOUSTON ADVANCED RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Greece)

^e SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

F theory; Flipped SU(5); Grand unification; Proton decay

Indexed keywords

EID: 79151482955     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2010.12.014     Document Type: Article

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