22.10.2008 (Wednesday)

Towards Realistic String Vacua

Regular Seminar Joe Conlon (Oxford)

at:
13:15 KCL
room 423
abstract:

I describe work aimed at combining the advances in moduli stabilisation and supersymmetry breaking with that in building D-brane models with realistic chiral matter spectra. The framework is models of D3/D7 branes at del Pezzo singularities embedded in the LARGE volume scenario of moduli stabilisation. I describe the general phenomenological properties that emerge and discuss the difficulties in computing visible sector soft terms.