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Experimental Considerations Motivated by the Diphoton Excess at the LHC
Prateek Agrawal, JiJi Fan, Ben Heidenreich +2
We consider the immediate or near-term experimental opportunities offered by some scenarios that could explain the new diphoton excess at the LHC. If the excess is due to a new par…
Sharpening the Weak Gravity Conjecture with Dimensional Reduction
Ben Heidenreich, Matthew Reece, Tom Rudelius
We investigate the behavior of the Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) under toroidal compactification and RG flows, finding evidence that WGC bounds for single photons become weaker in…
Strongly coupled phases of S-duality
Iñaki García-Etxebarria, Ben Heidenreich
We analyze S-duality of orientifolds of the Calabi-Yau cone over the first del Pezzo surface (). The S-duals of known phases, described by quiver gauge theories, contain intr…
Weak Gravity Strongly Constrains Large-Field Axion Inflation
Ben Heidenreich, Matthew Reece, Tom Rudelius
Models of large-field inflation based on axion-like fields with shift symmetries can be simple and natural, and make a promising prediction of detectable primordial gravitational w…