activity
20242026
collaborators

8 papers

hep-th2026

Automorphic Structures of Heterotic Vacua

Jacob M. Leedom, Nicole Righi, Alexander Westphal

We study moduli stabilization in 4D effective field theories with Sp(4,) self-duality inspired by heterotic orbifold compactifications with Wilson lines. The target-spa…

hep-th2025

Open Strings and Heterotic Instantons

Rafael Álvarez-García, Christian Kneißl, Jacob M. Leedom +1

Motivated by closed string perturbation theory arguments by S. Shenker, we consider non-perturbative effects of characteristic strength , with th…

hep-th2025

Towards a Heterotic Axiverse

Jacob M. Leedom, Margherita Putti, Alexander Westphal

In this paper we initiate a broad study of some central properties of the string axiverse arising from Calabi-Yau compactifications of the perturbative heterotic th…

hep-ph2025

Dark Matter Nuclear Magnetic Resonance is Sensitive to Dark Photons and the Axion-Photon Coupling

Carl Beadle, Sebastian A. R. Ellis, Jacob M. Leedom +1

We demonstrate that nuclear magnetic resonance based searches for dark matter (DM) have intrinsic and powerful sensitivity to dark photons and the axion-photon coupling. The reason…

hep-th2025

Exact Results in Chiral Gauge Theories with Flavor

Jacob M. Leedom, Hitoshi Murayama, Gup Singh +2

We present exact results in softly-broken supersymmetric chiral gauge theories with charged fermions in one antisymmetric, fundamental, and anti-…

hep-ph2025

Probing the UV with IR Axion Dark Matter Experiments

Jacob M. Leedom, Serah Moldovsky, Hitoshi Murayama

There is an ongoing and future experimental program searching for axions as both extensions of the Standard Model and as candidates for the observed dark matter. In this paper, we…