The μ problem and sneutrino inflation

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Kim, Yeong Gyun ^a   Lee, Hyun Min ^b   Park, Wan Il ^c  

^a Gwangju National University of Education   (South Korea)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

^c Korea Institute for Advanced Study   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM; Supergravity Models; Supersymmetric Effective Theories; Supersymmetric Standard Model

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053108238     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP08(2011)126     Document Type: Article

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