GENERATING SMALL NUMBERS BY TUNNELING IN MULTI-THROAT COMPACTIFICATIONS

DOI10.1142/S0217751X04018075zbMATH Open1080.83546arXivhep-th/0106128WikidataQ62598830 ScholiaQ62598830MaRDI QIDQ3370283FDOQ3370283

Nemanja Kaloper, Shamit Kachru, Eva Silverstein, Albion Lawrence, Savas Dimopoulos

Publication date: 7 February 2006

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A generic F-theory compactification containing many D3 branes develops multiple brane throats. The interaction of observers residing inside different throats involves tunneling suppression and, as a result, is very weak. This suggests a new mechanism for generating small numbers in Nature. One application is to the hierarchy problem: large supersymmetry breaking near the unification scale inside a shallow throat causes TeV-scale SUSY-breaking inside the standard-model throat. Another application, inspired by nuclear-decay, is in designing naturally long-lived particles: a cold dark matter particle residing near the standard model brane decays to an approximate CFT-state of a longer throat within a Hubble time. This suggests that most of the mass of the universe today could consist of CFT-matter and may soften structure formation at sub-galactic scales. The tunneling calculation demonstrates that the coupling between two throats is dominated by higher dimensional modes and consequently is much larger than a naive application of holography might suggest.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0106128

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zbMATH Keywords

braneworldsstring phenomenologyads/cft correspondence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Other elementary particle theory in quantum theory (81V25) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

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