The Cosmological Constant and the Electroweak Scale

Abstract

String theory has no parameter except the string scale, so a dynamically compactified solution to 4 dimensional spacetime should determine both the Planck scale and the cosmological constant $\Lambda$. In the racetrack Kähler uplift flux compactification model in Type IIB theory, where the string theory landscape is generated by scanning over discrete values of all the flux parameters, a statistical preference for an exponentially small $\Lambda$ is found to be natural (arXiv:1305.0753). Within this framework and matching the median $\Lambda$ value to the observed $\Lambda$, a mass scale $\mathbf{m}\simeq 100$ GeV naturally appears. We explain how the electroweak scale can be identified with this mass scale.

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