Kinetic mixing of U(1)s in heterotic orbifolds

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Goodsell, Mark ^a   Ramos Śanchez, Sául ^b   Ringwald, Andreas ^c  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c DESY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Phenomenology of Field Theories in Higher Dimensions; Strings and branes phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857326705     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP01(2012)021     Document Type: Article

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