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Explicit de Sitter Flux Vacua for Global String Models with Chiral Matter
Michele Cicoli, Denis Klevers, Sven Krippendorf +3
We address the open question of performing an explicit stabilisation of all closed string moduli (including dilaton, complex structure and Kaehler moduli) in fluxed type IIB Calabi…
A Note on the Magnitude of the Flux Superpotential
Michele Cicoli, Joseph P. Conlon, Anshuman Maharana +1
The magnitude of the flux superpotential plays a crucial role in determining the scales of IIB string compactifications after moduli stabilisation. It has been argued th…
Axion-like Particles from String Compactifications
Michele Cicoli
We review how axion-like particles (ALPs) naturally emerge in the low-energy effective field theory of string compactifications. We focus on the study of their mass spectrum and co…
Power Suppression at Large Scales in String Inflation
Michele Cicoli, Sean Downes, Bhaskar Dutta
We study a possible origin of the anomalous suppression of the power spectrum at large angular scales in the cosmic microwave background within the framework of explicit string inf…
Non-thermal Dark Matter in String Compactifications
Rouzbeh Allahverdi, Michele Cicoli, Bhaskar Dutta +1
Non-thermal cosmological histories are capable of greatly increasing the available parameter space of different particle physics dark matter (DM) models and are well-motivated by t…
String Inflation After Planck 2013
C. P. Burgess, M. Cicoli, F. Quevedo
We briefly summarize the impact of the recent Planck measurements for string inflationary models, and outline what might be expected to be learned in the near future from the expec…