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Preference for a Vanishingly Small Cosmological Constant in Supersymmetric Vacua in a Type IIB String Theory Model

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-12 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We study the probability distribution P(\Lambda) of the cosmological constant \Lambda in a specific set of KKLT type models of supersymmetric IIB vacua. We show that, as we sweep through the quantized flux values in this flux compactification, P(\Lambda) behaves divergent at \Lambda =0^- and the median magnitude of \Lambda drops exponentially as the number of complex structure moduli h^{2,1} increases. Also, owing to the hierarchical and approximate no-scale structure, the probability of having a positive Hessian (mass squared matrix) approaches unity as h^{2,1} increases.

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@article{arxiv.1211.6858,
  title  = {Preference for a Vanishingly Small Cosmological Constant in Supersymmetric Vacua in a Type IIB String Theory Model},
  author = {Yoske Sumitomo and S. -H. Henry Tye},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1211.6858},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

6 pages, 2 figures; v2: version to appear in PLB