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A dynamical mechanism for large volumes with consistent couplings

Abel, Steven

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A mechanism for addressing the “decompactification problem” is proposed, which consists of balancing the vacuum energy in Scherk-Schwarzed theories against contributions coming from non-perturbative physics. Universality of threshold corrections ensures that, in such situations, the stable minimum will have consistent gauge couplings for any gauge group that shares the same NN = 2 beta function for the bulk excitations as the gauge group that takes part in the minimisation. Scherk-Schwarz compactification from 6D to 4D in heterotic strings is discussed explicitly, together with two alternative possibilities for the non-perturbative physics, namely metastable SQCD vacua and a single gaugino condensate. In the former case, it is shown that modular symmetries gives various consistency checks, and allow one to follow soft-terms, playing a similar role to R-symmetry in global SQCD. The latter case is particularly attractive when there is nett Bose-Fermi degeneracy in the massless sector. In such cases, because the original Casimir energy is generated entirely by excited and/or non-physical string modes, it is completely immune to the non-perturbative IR physics. Such a separation between UV and IR contributions to the potential greatly simplifies the analysis of stabilisation, and is a general possibility that has not been considered before.

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Abel, S. (2016). A dynamical mechanism for large volumes with consistent couplings. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2016(11), Article 085. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep11%282016%29085

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Oct 25, 2016
Online Publication Date Nov 14, 2016
Publication Date Nov 14, 2016
Deposit Date Nov 28, 2016
Publicly Available Date Nov 29, 2016
Journal Journal of High Energy Physics
Print ISSN 1126-6708
Publisher Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA)
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 2016
Issue 11
Article Number 085
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep11%282016%29085
Related Public URLs https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.01311

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