Aspects of string phenomenology in particle physics and cosmology

by Ignatios Antoniadis (Ecole Polytechnique, Paris)

Friday Jun 5, 2015, 12:00 PM → 1:00 PM Europe/Madrid

IFAE Seminar room (IFAE)

I will discuss the problem of scale hierarchies in string phenomenology and propose ways to address it. In particular I will present a mechanism for supersymmetry breaking in the presence of a tiny (tunable) positive cosmological constant and describe its phenomenological consequences.