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Effective Supergravity from the Weakly Coupled Heterotic String

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-11 v1

Abstract

The motivation for Calabi-Yau-like compactifications of the weakly coupled E8E8E_8\otimes E_8 heterotic string theory, its particle spectrum and the issue of dilaton stabilization are briefly reviewed. Modular invariant models for hidden sector condensation and supersymmetry breaking are described at the quantum level of the effective field theory. Their phenomenological and cosmological implications, including a possible origin for R-parity, are discussed.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0505051,
  title  = {Effective Supergravity from the Weakly Coupled Heterotic String},
  author = {Mary K. Gaillard},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0505051},
  year   = {2009}
}

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17 pages, Talk presented at the Symposium in honor of Julius Wess, Jan. 10--11, 2004