A flux-scaling scenario for high-scale moduli stabilization in string theory
Tree-level moduli stabilization via geometric and non-geometric fluxes in type IIB orientifolds on Calabi–Yau manifolds is investigated. The focus is on stable non-supersymmetric minima, where all moduli are fixed except for some massless axions. The scenario includes the purely axionic orientifold-...
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| author | Ralph Blumenhagen Anamaría Font Michael Fuchs Daniela Herschmann Erik Plauschinn Yuta Sekiguchi Florian Wolf |
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| description | Tree-level moduli stabilization via geometric and non-geometric fluxes in type IIB orientifolds on Calabi–Yau manifolds is investigated. The focus is on stable non-supersymmetric minima, where all moduli are fixed except for some massless axions. The scenario includes the purely axionic orientifold-odd moduli. A set of vacua allowing for parametric control over the moduli vacuum expectation values and their masses is presented, featuring a specific scaling with the fluxes. Uplift mechanisms and supersymmetry breaking soft masses on MSSM-like D7-branes are discussed as well. This scenario provides a complete effective framework for realizing the idea of F-term axion monodromy inflation in string theory. It is argued that, with all masses close to the Planck and GUT scales, one is confronted with working at the threshold of controlling all mass hierarchies. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ed6ed87b76e24c518d7dee7917e030542022-12-22T00:12:21ZengElsevierNuclear Physics B0550-32131873-15622015-08-01897C50055410.1016/j.nuclphysb.2015.06.003A flux-scaling scenario for high-scale moduli stabilization in string theoryRalph Blumenhagen0Anamaría Font1Michael Fuchs2Daniela Herschmann3Erik Plauschinn4Yuta Sekiguchi5Florian Wolf6Max-Planck-Institut für Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut), Föhringer Ring 6, 80805 München, GermanyMax-Planck-Institut für Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut), Föhringer Ring 6, 80805 München, GermanyMax-Planck-Institut für Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut), Föhringer Ring 6, 80805 München, GermanyMax-Planck-Institut für Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut), Föhringer Ring 6, 80805 München, GermanyDipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia “Galileo Galilei”, Università di Padova, Via Marzolo 8, 35131 Padova, ItalyMax-Planck-Institut für Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut), Föhringer Ring 6, 80805 München, GermanyMax-Planck-Institut für Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut), Föhringer Ring 6, 80805 München, GermanyTree-level moduli stabilization via geometric and non-geometric fluxes in type IIB orientifolds on Calabi–Yau manifolds is investigated. The focus is on stable non-supersymmetric minima, where all moduli are fixed except for some massless axions. The scenario includes the purely axionic orientifold-odd moduli. A set of vacua allowing for parametric control over the moduli vacuum expectation values and their masses is presented, featuring a specific scaling with the fluxes. Uplift mechanisms and supersymmetry breaking soft masses on MSSM-like D7-branes are discussed as well. This scenario provides a complete effective framework for realizing the idea of F-term axion monodromy inflation in string theory. It is argued that, with all masses close to the Planck and GUT scales, one is confronted with working at the threshold of controlling all mass hierarchies.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0550321315002059 |
| spellingShingle | Ralph Blumenhagen Anamaría Font Michael Fuchs Daniela Herschmann Erik Plauschinn Yuta Sekiguchi Florian Wolf A flux-scaling scenario for high-scale moduli stabilization in string theory Nuclear Physics B |
| title | A flux-scaling scenario for high-scale moduli stabilization in string theory |
| title_full | A flux-scaling scenario for high-scale moduli stabilization in string theory |
| title_fullStr | A flux-scaling scenario for high-scale moduli stabilization in string theory |
| title_full_unstemmed | A flux-scaling scenario for high-scale moduli stabilization in string theory |
| title_short | A flux-scaling scenario for high-scale moduli stabilization in string theory |
| title_sort | flux scaling scenario for high scale moduli stabilization in string theory |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0550321315002059 |
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