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Moduli Stabilization in Meta-Stable Heterotic Supergravity Vacua

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We revisit the issue of moduli stabilization in a class of N=1 four dimensional supergravity theories which are low energy descriptions of standard perturbative heterotic string vacua compactified on Calabi-Yau spaces. In particular, we show how it is possible to stabilize the universal dilaton and Kahler moduli in a de Sitter/Minkowski vacuum with low energy supersymmetry breaking by means of non-perturbative gauge dynamics, including recent results by Intriligator, Seiberg and Shih. The non-SUSY vacua are meta-stable but sufficiently long-lived.

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@article{arxiv.0707.0497,
  title  = {Moduli Stabilization in Meta-Stable Heterotic Supergravity Vacua},
  author = {Marco Serone and Alexander Westphal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0707.0497},
  year   = {2008}
}

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1+31 pages, LaTeX, uses JHEP3 class, v2: references corrected and added, version published in JHEP

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