Axions in the landscape and string theory

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Dine, Michael ^a   Festuccia, Guido ^b   Kehayias, John ^a   Wu, Weitao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

Strings and branes phenomenology

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EID: 80053115083     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP01(2011)012     Document Type: Article

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