58 research outputs found
Aligned Natural Inflation: Monodromies of two Axions
Natural (axionic) inflation can accommodate sizeable primordial tensor modes
but suffers from the necessity of trans-Planckian variations of the inflaton
field. This problem can be solved via the mechanism of aligned axions
arXiv:hep-ph/0409138, where the aligned axion spirals down in the potential of
other axions. We elaborate on the mechanism in view of the recently reported
observations of the BICEP2 collaboration arXiv:1403.3985.Comment: 11 pages, 3 figures, v2: typos corrected, references added, v3:
references added, matches published versio
CYJAX: A package for Calabi-Yau metrics with JAX
We present the first version of CYJAX, a package for machine learning
Calabi-Yau metrics using JAX. It is meant to be accessible both as a top-level
tool and as a library of modular functions. CYJAX is currently centered around
the algebraic ansatz for the K\"ahler potential which automatically satisfies
K\"ahlerity and compatibility on patch overlaps. As of now, this implementation
is limited to varieties defined by a single defining equation on one complex
projective space. We comment on some planned generalizations.Comment: 15 pages, 5 figures, documentation at https://cyjax.readthedocs.io
and code at https://github.com/ml4physics/cyja
Towards structures in the flux landscape at large number of moduli
Sampling string flux vacua enables us to study structures in the string
landscape. Here we demonstrate that sampling at large number of moduli is
possible for the simplified landscape model of ADK. Using dimensional
reduction, we identify analytic structures in these samples. In this example,
we find that these structures are rather insensitive to the underlying
distribution of UV parameters but they emerge only at large number of moduli
and they can be attributed to sampling bias.Comment: 22 pages, 8 figure
Sequestered de Sitter String Scenarios: Soft-terms
We analyse soft supersymmetry breaking in type IIB de Sitter string vacua
after moduli stabilisation, focussing on models in which the Standard Model is
sequestered from the supersymmetry breaking sources and the spectrum of
soft-terms is hierarchically smaller than the gravitino mass . Due to
this feature, these models are compatible with gauge coupling unification and
TeV scale supersymmetry with no cosmological moduli problem. We determine the
influence on soft-terms of concrete realisations of de Sitter vacua constructed
from supersymmetric effective actions. One of these scenarios provides the
first study of soft-terms for consistent string models embedded in a compact
Calabi-Yau manifold with all moduli stabilised. Depending on the moduli
dependence of the Kaehler metric for matter fields and on the mechanism
responsible to obtain a de Sitter vacuum, we find two scenarios for
phenomenology: (i) a split-supersymmetry scenario where gaugino masses are
suppressed with respect to scalar masses: for ; (ii) a typical MSSM scenario where all soft-terms are of the same
order: . Background fluxes
determine the numerical coefficients of the soft-terms allowing for small
variations of parameters as is necessary to confront data and to interpolate
between different scenarios. We comment on different stringy origins of the
mu-term and potential sources of desequestering.Comment: 27 pages + appendices, 2 figure
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