Spontaneous breaking of SU(3) to finite family symmetries - A pedestrian's approach

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Luhn, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Beyond standard model; Discrete and finite symmetries; Spontaneous symmetry breaking

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053128165     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP03(2011)108     Document Type: Article

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