string vacua and phenomenology
Recent papers: SFT, SUSY GUT, a new light gauge boson, \(p\)-adic string gravity, swampland
I plan to write a heuristic post about some exciting ideas of mine but let me dedicate a comment to recent papers on the arXiv. There were some rathe…
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string vacua and phenomenology
Isn't Higgs a sneutrino dressed as a man?
Related LHC news : Both ATLAS and CMS released lots of new papers and preprints today. Perhaps most interestingly, ATLAS' measurement of the W…
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string vacua and phenomenology
Particle masses from intersecting braneworlds
Chen, Li, Mayes, and Nanopoulos ( PDF ) study a viable intersecting type IIA string-theoretical braneworld on T6 divided by Z2 x Z2 with D6-branes t…
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string vacua and phenomenology
Gubser and structure formation
If you had the feeling that there were too many people today who were opening the blog, be sure that it was just a temporary effect of the no-confide…
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string vacua and phenomenology
Recent papers: SFT, SUSY GUT, a new light gauge boson, \(p\)-adic string gravity, swampland
I plan to write a heuristic post about some exciting ideas of mine but let me dedicate a comment to recent papers on the arXiv. There were some rathe…
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string vacua and phenomenology
From all viewpoints, string theory is "just right" to go beyond QFT
From QM to QFT to ST Tomorrow, the Physics Stack Exchange should experience a silent completion of a Holy Trinity. Users are given a golden "tag…
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string vacua and phenomenology
F-theory papers go 3D
The prettiest hep-th preprint today is the last one and it was written by Clay Cordova at Harvard, Decoupling Gravity in F-Theory ( PDF ) The author…
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string vacua and phenomenology
CSW rules from YM light cone gauge
Gorsky and Rosly have a very interesting twistor paper today, hep-th/0510111 They consider Yang-Mills theory in the light-cone gauge and identify a n…
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string vacua and phenomenology
A Cambridge video introduction to strings
Giotis has told us about a new 30-minute video presenting the basics of string theory and related matters: Elemental Ideas – String Theory Part One …
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string vacua and phenomenology
Analytical structure of S-matrix
I wonder whether a reader will have an answer - or even a complete answer. Imagine the S-matrix of a quantum field theory. It may have poles. The res…
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string vacua and phenomenology
Three interesting hep-th papers
First, a comment about the phenomenological hep-ph archive . Three new "primarily hep-ph" papers among twelve, namely the papers #5, #6, #8…
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string vacua and phenomenology
Realistic fermion masses from D6-branes
The most interesting hep-ph paper today is All Fermion Masses and Mixings in an Intersecting D-brane World by Van Mayes of Houston. Well, it's a …
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