3 papers
hep-ph2019
The Weak Scale from Weak Gravity
Nathaniel Craig, Isabel Garcia Garcia, Seth Koren
We explore the prospects for bounding the weak scale using the weak gravity conjecture (WGC), addressing the hierarchy problem by violating the expectations of effective field theo…
hep-th2018
Rescuing Massive Photons from the Swampland
Nathaniel Craig, Isabel Garcia Garcia
Stringent Swampland conjectures aimed at effective theories containing massive abelian vectors have recently been proposed (arXiv:1808.09966), with striking phenomenological implic…
gr-qc2018
Properties of Discrete Black Hole Hair
Isabel Garcia Garcia
We revisit the physical effects of discrete gauge charge on black hole thermodynamics, building on the seminal work of Coleman, Preskill, and Wilczek. Realising the…