Über-naturalness: Unexpectedly light scalars from supersymmetric extra dimensions

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Burgess, C P ^a,b   Maharana, Anshuman ^c   Quevedo, F ^c,d  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

Strings and branes phenomenology

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EID: 80052547578     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP05(2011)010     Document Type: Article

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