Journal
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP10(2014)184
Keywords
Compactification and String Models; Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM; Flux compactifications; Supersymmetric Standard Model
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- STFC studentship
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Dark radiation is a compelling extension to ACDM: current experimental results hint at Delta N-eff greater than or similar to 0.5, which is increased to Delta N-eff similar or equal to 1 if the recent BICEP2 results are included. In recent years dark radiation has been considered in the context of string theory models such as the LARGE Volume Scenario of type IIB string theory, forging a link between present-day cosmological observations and models of physics at the Planck scale. In this paper I consider an extension of the LARGE Volume Scenario in which the bulk volume is stabilised by two moduli instead of one. Consequently, the lightest modulus no longer corresponds to the compactification volume but instead to a transverse direction in the bulk geometry. I focus on scenarios in which sequestering of soft masses is achieved by localising the Standard Model on D3 branes at a singularity. The fraction of dark radiation produced in such models vastly exceeds experimental bounds, ruling out the sequestered LARGE Volume Scenario with two bulk moduli as a model of the early Universe.
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