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A new class of de Sitter vacua in type IIB large volume compactifications

Journal

JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 10, Pages -

Publisher

SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP10(2017)193

Keywords

Flux compactifications; Supergravity Models; Superstring Vacua

Funding

  1. Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
  2. INFN
  3. National Science Foundation [PHY-1607611]
  4. UPTC-DIN [SGI-2145]
  5. European Commission [328652-QM-sing]
  6. European Research Council [ERC-2011-SrG 279617 TOI, ERC-2013-CoG 616732 HoloQosmos]
  7. Interuniversity Attraction Poles Programme [P7/37]
  8. KU Leuven
  9. Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [P 28552]
  10. Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge

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We construct a new class of metastable de Sitter vacua of flux compactifications of type IIB string theory. These solutions provide a natural extension of the 'Large Volume Scenario' anti-de Sitter vacua, and can analogously be realised at parametrically large volume and weak string coupling, using standard N = 1 supergravity. For these new vacua, a positive vacuum energy is achieved from the inclusion of a small amount of flux-induced supersymmetry breaking in the complex structure and axio-dilaton sector, and no additional 'uplift' contribution (e.g. from anti-branes) is required. We show that the approximate no-scale structure of the effective theory strongly influences the spectrum of the stabilised moduli: one complex structure modulus remains significantly lighter than the supersymmetry breaking scale, and metastability requires only modest amounts of tuning. After discussing these general results, we provide a recipe for constructing de Sitter vacua on a given compactification manifold, and give an explicit example of a de Sitter vacuum for the compactification on the Calabi-Yau orientifold realised in CP111694. Finally, we note that these solutions have intriguing implications for phenomenology, predicting no superpartners in the spectrum below similar to 50 TeV, and no WIMP dark matter.

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