Lectures on Superstring Phenomenology

Abstract

The phenomenological aspects of string theory are briefly reviewed. Emphasis is given to the status of 4D string model building, effective Lagrangians, model independent results, supersymmetry breaking and duality symmetries.

41 pages, latex, given at V Latin American Workshop on Particles and Fields, Mexico, 1995 (typos corrected, a footnote changed and more references added)

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• Weak Scale Superstrings
• Supersymmetric Standard Model from the Heterotic String
• Flux-induced SUSY-breaking soft terms
• Gluino Condensation in Strongly Coupled Heterotic String Theory
• Heterotic Brane World
• SUSY Breaking and Moduli Stabilization from Fluxes in Gauged 6D Supergravity
• MSSM parameters from supergravity backgrounds
• The Orbifolder: A Tool to study the Low Energy Effective Theory of Heterotic Orbifolds
• In quest of "just" the Standard Model on D-branes at a singularity
• Type IIB orientifolds on Gepner points
• Intersecting D-brane Models
• The Landscape "avant la lettre"
• Heterotic and M-theory Compactifications for String Phenomenology
• Chameleonic inflation
• The Higgs Mechanism in Heterotic Orbifolds
• Order ${\alpha }^{\prime }$ heterotic domain walls with warped nearly Kähler geometry
• Chameleons on the Racetrack
• Quantizing N=2 matter-supergravity systems
• Classification of the Chiral Z_2 x Z_2 Heterotic String Models
• A natural cosmological constant from chameleons
• Small field inflation in $\mathcal{N}=1$ supergravity with a single chiral superfield
• The Emperor's Last Clothes?
• Non-Perturbative States in Superstring Theories
• Hadron Colliders, the Top Quark, and the Higgs Sector
• SO(3) \times U(1) isometric instantons with non abelian hair in four dimensional string theory