Conifold Vacua with Small Flux Superpotential

Demirtaş, Mehmet; Kim, Manki; McAllister, Liam; Moritz, Jakob

doi:10.1002/prop.202000085

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“…In the following we will show that the conditions ( 1)-( 3) above, put a large lower bound for the flux D3-charge, as has been recently observed also in [48]. This large positive D3charge is typically difficult to cancel in a perturbative type IIB setup, even though in our opinion the situation is not as bad as suggested in [21].…”

Section: Bounds On the Flux D3-chargesupporting

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On de Sitter string vacua from anti-d3-branes in the large volume scenario

Crinò

Quevedo

Valandro

2021

J. High Energ. Phys.

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We consider de Sitter vacua realised in concrete type IIB Calabi-Yau compactifications with an anti D3-brane at the tip of a warped throat of Klebanov-Strassler type. The Kähler moduli are stabilised together with the complex structure modulus of the warped throat. The volume is exponentially large as in the large volume scenario (LVS). We analyse the conditions on the parameters of the EFT such that they are in the region of validity of our approximations, there are no runaway problems and the vacua satisfy all consistency constraints, such as tadpole cancellation. We illustrate our results with an explicit Calabi-Yau orientifold with two Kähler moduli and one antibrane on top of an O3-plane in a warped throat, that has the goldstino as its only massless state. The moduli are stabilised with gs∼ 0.2 and volume $$ \mathcal{V} $$ V ∼ 104 in string units, justifying the approximation used to derive the corresponding EFT. Although the model lacks chiral matter, it is presented as a proof of concept, chosen to be the simplest realisation of antibrane uplift.

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Section: Bounds On the Flux D3-chargesupporting

confidence: 66%

“…Recently, explicit mechanisms have been found that can give rise to exponentially small flux superpotentials W0[46][47][48].…”

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On de Sitter string vacua from anti-d3-branes in the large volume scenario

Crinò

Quevedo

Valandro

2021

J. High Energ. Phys.

124

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“…In general, such an analysis would require a specific treatment which is beyond the reach of the present analysis, as our derivations depend crucially on the universal properties satisfied by the couplings of the EFT at LCS. However, in the specific case of conifold limits of the moduli space, it might be possible to make some progress following an analogous procedure to the one described in [130,131] (see also [132]). In those works, it was explicitly demonstrated that one can stabilise a subset of the complex structure moduli near a conifold point, while fixing the rest near the LCS point, i.e., at a conifold-LCS regime.…”

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Towards a complete mass spectrum of type-IIB flux vacua at large complex structure

Sousa

Urkiola

Wachter

2021

J. High Energ. Phys.

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The large number of moduli fields arising in a generic string theory compactification makes a complete computation of the low energy effective theory infeasible. A common strategy to solve this problem is to consider Calabi-Yau manifolds with discrete symmetries, which effectively reduce the number of moduli and make the computation of the truncated Effective Field Theory possible. In this approach, however, the couplings (e.g., the masses) of the truncated fields are left undetermined. In the present paper we discuss the tree-level mass spectrum of type-IIB flux compactifications at Large Complex Structure, focusing on models with a reduced one-dimensional complex structure sector. We compute the tree-level spectrum for the dilaton and complex structure moduli, including the truncated fields, which can be expressed entirely in terms of the known couplings of the reduced theory. We show that the masses of this set of fields are naturally heavy at vacua consistent with the KKLT construction, and we discuss other phenomenologically interesting scenarios where the spectrum involves fields much lighter than the gravitino. We also derive the probability distribution for the masses on the ensemble of flux vacua, and show that it exhibits universal features independent of the details of the compactification. We check our results on a large sample of flux vacua constructed in an orientifold of the Calabi-Yau $$ {\mathbbm{W}\mathrm{\mathbb{P}}}_{\left[1,1,1,1,4\right]}^4 $$ W ℙ 1 1 1 1 4 4 . Finally, we also discuss the conditions under which the spectrum derived here could arise in more general compactifications.

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“…Note added : While finishing this work we became aware of an upcoming paper [ 41 ] by Demirtas, Kim, McAllister and Moritz which approaches the same question.…”

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Small Flux Superpotentials for Type IIB Flux Vacua Close to a Conifold

Álvarez-García

Blumenhagen

Brinkmann

et al. 2020

Fortschritte der Physik

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We generalize the recently proposed mechanism by Demirtas, Kim, McAllister and Moritz [1] for the explicit construction of type IIB flux vacua with |W 0 | ≪ 1 to the region close to the conifold locus in the complex structure moduli space. For that purpose tools are developed to determine the periods and the resulting prepotential close to such a codimension one locus with all the remaining moduli still in the large complex structure regime. As a proof of principle we present a working example for the Calabi-Yau manifold ℙ 1,1,2,8,12. [24]

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Conifold Vacua with Small Flux Superpotential

Cited by 71 publications

References 56 publications

On de Sitter string vacua from anti-d3-branes in the large volume scenario

On de Sitter string vacua from anti-d3-branes in the large volume scenario

Towards a complete mass spectrum of type-IIB flux vacua at large complex structure

Small Flux Superpotentials for Type IIB Flux Vacua Close to a Conifold

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