Evolving Heterotic Gauge Backgrounds: Genetic Algorithms versus Reinforcement Learning
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
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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Quintessence and the Swampland: The Parametrically Controlled Regime of Moduli Space
Abstract We provide evidence that slow roll is not possible in any parametrically controlled regime of the moduli space of string theory. This is proven in full generality in the asymptotic limit of the moduli space of type II and heterotic Calabi‐Yau compactifications for the dilaton and any number of Kähler moduli.
Michele Cicoli +3 more
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Discovery and Exclusion Prospects for Staus Produced by Heavy Higgs Boson Decays at the LHC
In a previous work, we developed a search strategy for staus produced by the decay of the heavy CP‐even Higgs boson H within the context of the large tanβ regime of the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM) in a scenario of large stau mixing. Here, we study the performance of such search strategy by confronting it with the complementary mixing ...
Ernesto Arganda +4 more
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ASPECTS OF STRING PHENOMENOLOGY IN PARTICLE PHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY
We discuss possible connections between several scales in particle physics and cosmology, such the the electroweak, inflation, dark energy and Planck scales.
I. Antoniadis
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Studying Same‐Sign Top Pair Production through Top‐Higgs FCNC Interactions at the HL‐LHC
We investigate the potential of the HL‐LHC for discovering new physics effects via the same‐sign top pair signatures. We focus on the semileptonic (electron and muon) decay of the top quarks and study the reach for a simplified model approach where top quark flavor changing could occur through a neutral scalar exchange.
O. M. Ozsimsek +3 more
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MSSM soft terms from supergravity with gauged R-symmetry in de Sitter vacuum
We work out the phenomenology of a model of supersymmetry breaking in the presence of a tiny (tunable) positive cosmological constant, proposed by the authors in arXiv:1403.1534. It utilizes a single chiral multiplet with a gauged shift symmetry that can
I. Antoniadis, R. Knoops
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The role of supersymmetry phenomenology in particle physics [PDF]
Supersymmetry phenomenology is an important component of particle physics today. I provide a definition of supersymmetry phenomenology, outline the scope of its activity, and argue its legitimacy.
Wells, James D.
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Calculated Event Rates for Axion Detection via Atomic and Nuclear Processes
The possibility of detection of 5.5 MeV and 14.4 keV solar axions by observing axion‐induced nuclear and atomic transitions is investigated. The presence of nuclear transitions between spin orbit partners can be manifested by the subsequent deexcitation via gamma ray emissions.
John D. Vergados +3 more
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Dirac gauginos in low scale supersymmetry breaking
It has been claimed that Dirac gaugino masses are necessary for realistic models of low-scale supersymmetry breaking, and yet very little attention has been paid to the phenomenology of a light gravitino when gauginos have Dirac masses.
Mark D. Goodsell, Pantelis Tziveloglou
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