Towards a systematic construction of realistic D-brane models on a del Pezzo singularity

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Dolan, Matthew J ^a   Krippendorf, Sven ^b   Quevedo, Fernando ^b,c  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

Strings and branes phenomenology

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EID: 81155124309     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP10(2011)024     Document Type: Article

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