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String moduli inflation: an overview
Michele Cicoli, Fernando Quevedo
We present an overview of inflationary models derived from string theory focusing mostly on closed string moduli as inflatons. After a detailed discussion of the eta-problem and di…
Towards a Systematic Construction of Realistic D-brane Models on a del Pezzo Singularity
Matthew J. Dolan, Sven Krippendorf, Fernando Quevedo
A systematic approach is followed in order to identify realistic D-brane models at toric del Pezzo singularities. Requiring quark and lepton spectrum and Yukawas from D3 branes and…
Anisotropic Modulus Stabilisation: Strings at LHC Scales with Micron-sized Extra Dimensions
M. Cicoli, C. P. Burgess, F. Quevedo
We construct flux-stabilised IIB compactifications whose extra dimensions (EDs) have very different sizes, and use these to describe several vacua with a TeV string scale. Because…
Radiative Fermion Masses in Local D-Brane Models
C. P. Burgess, Sven Krippendorf, Anshuman Maharana +1
In the context of D-brane model building, we present a realistic framework for generating fermion masses that are forbidden by global symmetries. We show that the string theoretica…
New Constraints (and Motivations) for Abelian Gauge Bosons in the MeV-TeV Mass Range
M. Williams, C. P. Burgess, Anshuman Maharana +1
We survey the phenomenological constraints on abelian gauge bosons having masses in the MeV to multi-GeV mass range (using precision electroweak measurements, neutrino-electron and…