Published June 25, 2013 | Version v1
Journal article

Preference for a vanishingly small cosmological constant in supersymmetric vacua in a Type IIB string theory model

  • 1. Institute for Advanced Study, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Hong Kong)
  • 2. Laboratory for Elementary-Particle Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 (United States)

Description

We study the probability distribution P(Λ) of the cosmological constant Λ in a specific set of KKLT type models of supersymmetric IIB vacua. We show that, as we sweep through the quantized flux values in this flux compactification, P(Λ) behaves divergent at Λ=0− and the median magnitude of Λ drops exponentially as the number of complex structure moduli h2,1 increases. Also, owing to the hierarchical and approximate no-scale structure, the probability of having a positive Hessian (mass-squared matrix) approaches unity as h2,1 increases

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2013.05.027

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2013.05.027;
arXiv
arXiv:1211.6858v2;
PII
S0370-2693(13)00396-1;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. Section B
Journal Volume
723
Journal Issue
4-5
Journal Page Range
p. 406-410
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBAJ

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