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Large extra dimensions and light hidden photons from anisotropic string vacua
Michele Cicoli
We derive type IIB vacua which are very promising to put string theory to experimental test. These are Calabi-Yau compactifications with a 4D fibration over a 2D base. The moduli a…
Poly-instanton Inflation
Michele Cicoli, Francisco G. Pedro, Gianmassimo Tasinato
We propose a new inflationary scenario in type IIB Calabi-Yau compactifications, where the inflaton is a Kähler modulus parameterising the volume of an internal four-cycle. The inf…
Moduli Stabilisation for Chiral Global Models
Michele Cicoli, Christoph Mayrhofer, Roberto Valandro
We combine moduli stabilisation and (chiral) model building in a fully consistent global set-up in Type IIB/F-theory. We consider compactifications on Calabi-Yau orientifolds which…
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…
Toric K3-Fibred Calabi-Yau Manifolds with del Pezzo Divisors for String Compactifications
Michele Cicoli, Maximilian Kreuzer, Christoph Mayrhofer
We analyse several explicit toric examples of compact K3-fibred Calabi-Yau three-folds which can be used for the study of string dualities and are crucial ingredients for the const…
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…