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FORTSCHRITTE DER PHYSIK-PROGRESS OF PHYSICS
Volume 55, Issue 5-7, Pages 491-518Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/prop.200610381
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string phenomenology; superstring vacua; D-branes
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The state of the art in D-brane model building is briefly reviewed, focusing on recent achievements in the construction of D = 4N = 1 type II string vacua with semi-realistic gauge sectors. Such progress relies on a better understanding of the spectrum of BPS D-branes, the effective field theory obtained from them and the explicit construction of vacua. We first consider D-branes in standard Calabi-Yau compactifications, and then the more involved case of compactifications with fluxes. We discuss how the non-trivial interplay between D-branes and fluxes modifies the previous model-building rules, as well as provides new possibilities to connect string theory to particle physics. (C) 2007 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.
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