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Naturalness from runaways in direct mediation
Sakura Schafer-Nameki, Carlos Tamarit, Gonzalo Torroba
Postulating that the NMSSM singlet is a meson of a microscopic confining theory opens up new model-building possibilities. Based on this, we construct calculable models of direct m…
Dynamic SU(2) Structure from Seven-branes
Ben Heidenreich, Liam McAllister, Gonzalo Torroba
We obtain a family of supersymmetric solutions of type IIB supergravity with dynamic SU(2) structure, which describe the local geometry near a stack of four D7-branes and one O7-pl…
Gauge theories from D7-branes over vanishing 4-cycles
Sebastian Franco, Gonzalo Torroba
We study quiver gauge theories on D7-branes wrapped over vanishing holomorphic 4-cycles. We investigate how to incorporate O7-planes and/or flavor D7-branes, which are necessary to…
Single-sector supersymmetry breaking, chirality, and unification
Siavosh R. Behbahani, Nathaniel Craig, Gonzalo Torroba
Calculable single-sector models provide an elegant framework for generating the flavor textures via compositeness, breaking supersymmetry, and explaining the electroweak scale. Suc…
Micromanaging de Sitter holography
Xi Dong, Bart Horn, Eva Silverstein +1
We develop tools to engineer de Sitter vacua with semi-holographic duals, using elliptic fibrations and orientifolds to uplift Freund-Rubin compactifications with CFT duals. The du…
A Hybrid Higgs
Sakura Schafer-Nameki, Carlos Tamarit, Gonzalo Torroba
We construct composite Higgs models admitting a weakly coupled Seiberg dual description. We focus on the possibility that only the up-type Higgs is an elementary field, while the d…