The Swampland program aims to distinguish effective theories which can be completed into
quantum gravity in the ultraviolet from those which cannot. This article forms an introduction …

Recent work is reviewed in which compactifications of string and M theory are constructed in
which all scalar fields (moduli) are massive, and supersymmetry is broken with a small …

arXiv:hep-th/0701050v1 6 Jan 2007 Page 1 arXiv:hep-th/0701050v1 6 Jan 2007 1 Physics of
String Flux Compactifications Frederik Denef Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of …

Naturalness has for many years been a guiding principle in the search for physics beyond
the Standard Model, particularly for understanding the physics of electroweak symmetry …

A bstract For certain terms in the action, supersymmetry can forbid an infinite number of
possible contributions. We study whether such protection can occur in quantum gravity even …

Recent developments in string theory have reinforced the notion that the space of stable
supersymmetric and nonsupersymmetric string vacua fills out a landscape whose features …

If the results of the first LHC run are not betraying us, many decades of particle physics are
culminating in a complete and consistent theory for all nongravitational physics: the standard …

Invoking the Peccei-Quinn (PQ) solution to the strong CP problem substitutes the puzzle of
why θ qcd is so small with the puzzle of why the PQ symmetry is of such high quality …

We analyze supersymmetry breaking by anti-self-dual flux in the deformed conifold. This
theory has been argued to be a dual realization of susy breaking by antibranes. As such …

Type II orientifolds based on Landau–Ginzburg models are used to describe moduli
stabilization for flux compactifications of type II theories from the world-sheet CFT point of …