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Superheavy Dark Matter from String Theory
Rouzbeh Allahverdi, Igor Broeckel, Michele Cicoli +1
Explicit string models which can realize inflation and low-energy supersymmetry are notoriously difficult to achieve. Given that sequestering requires very specific configurations,…
Oscillon collapse to black holes
Zainab Nazari, Michele Cicoli, Katy Clough +1
Using numerical relativity simulations we study the dynamics of pseudo-topological objects called oscillons for a class of models inspired by axion-monodromy. Starting from free fi…
Moduli Stabilisation and the Statistics of SUSY Breaking in the Landscape
Igor Broeckel, Michele Cicoli, Anshuman Maharana +2
The statistics of the supersymmetry breaking scale in the string landscape has been extensively studied in the past finding either a power-law behaviour induced by uniform distribu…
Out of the Swampland with Multifield Quintessence?
Michele Cicoli, Giuseppe Dibitetto, Francisco G. Pedro
Multifield models with a curved field space have already been shown to be able to provide viable quintessence models for steep potentials that satisfy swampland bounds. The simples…
UV Shadows in EFTs: Accidental Symmetries, Robustness and No-Scale Supergravity
C. P. Burgess, Michele Cicoli, David Ciupke +2
We argue that accidental approximate scaling symmetries are robust predictions of weakly coupled string vacua, and show that their interplay with supersymmetry and other (generalis…
A Systematic Approach to Kähler Moduli Stabilisation
Shehu AbdusSalam, Steven Abel, Michele Cicoli +2
Achieving full moduli stabilisation in type IIB string compactifications for generic Calabi-Yau threefolds with hundreds of Kähler moduli is notoriously hard. This is due not just…