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Dark Radiation in LARGE Volume Models
Michele Cicoli, Joseph P. Conlon, Fernando Quevedo
We consider reheating driven by volume modulus decays in the LARGE Volume Scenario. Such reheating always generates non-zero dark radiation through the decays to the axion partner,…
Global D-brane models with stabilised moduli and light axions
Michele Cicoli
We review recent attempts to try to combine global issues of string compactifications, like moduli stabilisation, with local issues, like semi-realistic D-brane constructions. We l…
D-Branes at del Pezzo Singularities: Global Embedding and Moduli Stabilisation
Michele Cicoli, Sven Krippendorf, Christoph Mayrhofer +2
In the context of type IIB string theory we combine moduli stabilisation and model building on branes at del Pezzo singularities in a fully consistent global compactification. By m…
The type IIB string axiverse and its low-energy phenomenology
Michele Cicoli, Mark Goodsell, Andreas Ringwald
We study closed string axions in type IIB orientifold compactifications. We show that for natural values of the background fluxes the moduli stabilisation mechanism of the LARGE Vo…
Natural Quintessence in String Theory
Michele Cicoli, Francisco G. Pedro, Gianmassimo Tasinato
We introduce a natural model of quintessence in string theory where the light rolling scalar is radiatively stable and couples to Standard Model matter with weaker-than- Planckian…
De Sitter String Vacua from Dilaton-dependent Non-perturbative Effects
Michele Cicoli, Anshuman Maharana, F. Quevedo +1
We consider a novel scenario for modulus stabilisation in IIB string compactifications in which the Kahler moduli are stabilised by a general set-up with two kinds of non-perturbat…