From Strings to the LHC. Les Houches Lectures on String Phenomenology

Abstract

These notes are based on lectures given at the Les Houches Summer School in 2011, which was centered on the general topic "Theoretical Physics to face the challenge of LHC". In these lectures I reviewed a number of topics in the field of String Phenomenology, focusing on orientifold/F-theory models yielding semi-realistic low-energy physics. The emphasis was on the extraction of the low-energy effective action and the possible test of specific models at LHC. These notes are a brief summary, appropriately updated, of some of the main topics covered in the lectures.

28 pages, 9 figures

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• Toward Realistic Intersecting D-Brane Models
• A Natural SUSY Higgs Near 125 GeV
• Soft Supersymmetry Breaking in KKLT Flux Compactification
• Implications of a 125 GeV Higgs for supersymmetric models
• Spacetime Instanton Corrections in 4D String Vacua - The Seesaw Mechanism for D-Brane Models
• A WAY TO BREAK SUPERSYMMETRY
• Implications of a 125 GeV Higgs scalar for LHC SUSY and neutralino dark matter searches
• Lectures on F-theory compactifications and model building
• Flux-induced SUSY-breaking soft terms
• SUSY Breaking in Local String/F-Theory Models
• Strong constraints on the rare decays Bs -> mu+ mu- and B0 -> mu+ mu-
• Revisiting the Higgs Mass and Dark Matter in the CMSSM
• Progress in D-brane model building
• Particle Physics Implications of F-theory
• Higgs Boson Mass Predictions in SUGRA Unification, Recent LHC-7 Results, and Dark Matter
• The Gaugino Code
• Soft SUSY Breaking Terms for Chiral Matter in IIB String Compactifications
• The $G_2$-MSSM - An $M$ Theory motivated model of Particle Physics
• Yukawa Couplings in F-theory and Non-Commutative Geometry
• A Higgs Mass Shift to 125 GeV and A Multi-Jet Supersymmetry Signal: Miracle of the Flippons at the \sqrt{s} = 7 TeV LHC
• Sparticle Spectra and LHC Signatures for Large Volume String Compactifications
• Higgs Mass Prediction for Realistic String/M Theory Vacua
• The Footprint of F-theory at the LHC
• Classical and Quantum SUSY Breaking Effects in IIB Local Models
• More about the Standard Model at Intersecting Branes
• Intersecting D-brane Models

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