Published May 5, 2014 | Version v1
Journal article

Explicit de Sitter flux vacua for global string models with chiral matter

  • 1. ICTP, Strada Costiera 11, 34014 Trieste (Italy)
  • 2. INFN, Sezione di Bologna, via Irnerio 46, 40126 Bologna (Italy)
  • 3. Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Bologna, via Irnerio 46, 40126 Bologna (Italy)
  • 4. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, 209 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6396 (United States)
  • 5. Bethe Center for Theoretical Physics and Physikalisches Institut der Universität Bonn, Nussallee 12, 53115 Bonn (Germany)
  • 6. Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Heidelberg, Philosophenweg 19, 69120 Heidelberg (Germany)
  • 7. DAMTP, University of Cambridge, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WA (United Kingdom)
  • 8. INFN, Sezione di Trieste, Trieste (Italy)

Description

We address the open question of performing an explicit stabilisation of all closed string moduli (including dilaton, complex structure and Kähler moduli) in fluxed type IIB Calabi-Yau compactifications with chiral matter. Using toric geometry we construct Calabi-Yau manifolds with del Pezzo singularities. D-branes located at such singularities can support the Standard Model gauge group and matter content or some close extensions. In order to control complex structure moduli stabilisation we consider Calabi-Yau manifolds which exhibit a discrete symmetry that reduces the effective number of complex structure moduli. We calculate the corresponding periods in the symplectic basis of invariant three-cycles and find explicit flux vacua for concrete examples. We compute the values of the flux superpotential and the string coupling at these vacua. Starting from these explicit complex structure solutions, we obtain AdS and dS minima where the Kähler moduli are stabilised by a mixture of D-terms, non-perturbative and perturbative α corrections as in the LARGE Volume Scenario. In the considered example the visible sector lives at a dP6 singularity which can be higgsed to the phenomenologically interesting class of models at the dP3 singularity

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2014)001; Available from http://repo.scoap3.org/record/2351

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
Journal Volume
2014
Journal Issue
05
Journal Page Range
p. 1
ISSN
1029-8479

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Notes
PUBLISHER-ID: JHEP05(2014)001; OAI: oai:repo.scoap3.org:2351
Funding organization
SCOAP3, CERN, Geneva (Switzerland)