The cosmological constant and the electroweak scale

Stefano Andriolo, Shing Yan Li, S. H.Henry Tye

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Abstract

String theory has no parameter except the string scale, so a dynamically compactified solution to 4 dimensional spacetime should determine both the Planck scale and the cosmological constant Λ. In the racetrack Kähler uplift flux compactification model in Type IIB theory, where the string theory landscape is generated by scanning over discrete values of all the flux parameters, a statistical preference for an exponentially small Λ is found to be natural [1]. Within this framework and matching the median Λ value to the observed Λ, a mass scale m ≃ 100 GeV naturally appears. We explain how the electroweak scale can be identified with this mass scale.

Original languageEnglish
Article number212
JournalJournal of High Energy Physics
Volume2019
Issue number10
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Oct 2019
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Compactification and String Models
  • Effective Field Theories
  • Higgs Physics
  • Superstring Vacua

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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