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A Note on Modular Invariant Species Scale and Potentials
Fortschritte der Physik, Volume 71, Issue 10-11, November 2023., 2023 Abstract The species scale provides an upper bound for the ultraviolet cutoff of effective theories of gravity coupled to a number of light particle species. Modular invariant (super‐)potentials provide a simple and computable expression of the species scale as a function of the moduli in toroidal orbifold compactifications of type II and heterotic ...
Niccolò Cribiori, Dieter Lüst
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Hidden Sectors from Multiple Line Bundles for the B−L$B-L$ MSSM
Fortschritte der Physik, Volume 70, Issue 7-8, August 2022., 2022 Abstract We give a formalism for constructing hidden sector bundles as extensions of sums of line bundles in heterotic M‐theory. Although this construction is generic, we present it within the context of the specific Schoen threefold that leads to the physically realistic B−L$B-L$ MSSM model.
Anthony Ashmore +2 more
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Who's Afraid of the Supersymmetric Dark? The Standard Model vs Low‐Energy Supergravity
Fortschritte der Physik, Volume 70, Issue 7-8, August 2022., 2022 Abstract Use of supergravity equations in astronomy and late‐universe cosmology is often criticized on three grounds: (i) phenomenological success usually depends on the supergravity form for the scalar potential applying at the relevant energies; (ii$ii$) the low‐energy scalar potential is extremely sensitive to quantum effects involving very massive ...
C.P. Burgess, F. Quevedo
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Evolving Heterotic Gauge Backgrounds: Genetic Algorithms versus Reinforcement Learning
Fortschritte der Physik, Volume 70, Issue 5, May 2022., 2022 Abstract The immensity of the string landscape and the difficulty of identifying solutions that match the observed features of particle physics have raised serious questions about the predictive power of string theory. Modern methods of optimisation and search can, however, significantly improve the prospects of constructing the standard model in ...
Steven Abel +3 more
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Quintessence and the Swampland: The Numerically Controlled Regime of Moduli Space
Fortschritte der Physik, Volume 70, Issue 4, April 2022., 2022 Abstract We provide a detailed discussion of the main theoretical and phenomenological challenges of quintessence model building in any numerically controlled regime of the moduli space of string theory. We argue that a working quintessence model requires a leading order non‐supersymmetric (near) Minkowski vacuum with an axionic flat direction.
Michele Cicoli +3 more
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Generalising Holographic Superconductors
Advances in High Energy Physics, Volume 2022, Issue 1, 2022., 2022 In this paper we propose a generalised holographic framework to describe superconductors. We first unify the description of s‐, p‐, and d‐wave superconductors in a way that can be easily promoted to higher spin. Using a semianalytical procedure to compute the superconductor properties, we are able to further generalise the geometric description of the ...
Andrea Donini +4 more
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Tachyonic de Sitter Solutions of 10d Type II Supergravities
Fortschritte der Physik, Volume 69, Issue 7, July 2021., 2021 Abstract Cosmological models of the early or late universe exhibit (quasi) de Sitter space‐times with different stability properties. Considering models derived from string theory, the swampland program does not provide for now a definite characterisation of this stability.
David Andriot
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String (Gravi)photons, “Dark Brane Photons”, Holography and the Hypercharge Portal
Fortschritte der Physik, Volume 69, Issue 6, June 2021., 2021 Abstract The mixing of graviphotons and dark brane photons to the Standard Model hypercharge is analyzed in full generality, in weakly‐coupled string theory. Both the direct mixing as well as effective terms that provide mixing after inclusion of SM corrections are estimated to lowest order.
P. Anastasopoulos +3 more
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On the Interpretation of Nonresonant Phenomena at Colliders
Advances in High Energy Physics, Volume 2021, Issue 1, 2021., 2021 With null results in resonance searches at the LHC, the physics potential focus is now shifting towards the interpretation of nonresonant phenomena. An example of such shift is the increased popularity of the EFT programme. We can embark on such programme owing to the good integrated luminosity and an excellent understanding of the detectors, which ...
Miguel G. Folgado +2 more
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High quality axion via a doubly composite dynamics
Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022 We explore a new framework that furnishes a mechanism to simultaneously address the electroweak naturalness problem and the axion high quality problem. The framework is based on a doubly composite dynamics where the second confinement takes place after ...
Seung J. Lee +2 more
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