Theory and phenomenology of type I strings andM-theory

E Dudas - Classical and quantum gravity, 2000‏ - iopscience.iop.org
The physical motivations and the basic construction rules for type I strings and M-theory
compactifications are reviewed in the light of recent developments. The first part of this …

Life at the interface of particle physics and string theory

AN Schellekens - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2013‏ - APS
If the results of the first LHC run are not betraying us, many decades of particle physics are
culminating in a complete and consistent theory for all nongravitational physics: the standard …

Ekpyrotic universe: Colliding branes and the origin of the hot big bang

J Khoury, BA Ovrut, PJ Steinhardt, N Turok - Physical Review D, 2001‏ - APS
We propose a cosmological scenario in which the hot big bang universe is produced by the
collision of a brane in the bulk space with a bounding orbifold plane, beginning from an …

New ekpyrotic cosmology

EI Buchbinder, J Khoury, BA Ovrut - Physical Review D—Particles, Fields …, 2007‏ - APS
In this paper, we present a new scenario of the early universe that contains a pre-big bang
ekpyrotic phase. By combining this with a ghost condensate, the theory explicitly violates the …

Heterotic line bundle standard models

LB Anderson, J Gray, A Lukas, E Palti - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2012‏ - Springer
A bstract In a previous publication, arxiv: 1106.4804, we have found 200 models from
heterotic Calabi-Yau compactifications with line bundles, which lead to standard models …

Generating ekpyrotic curvature perturbations before the big bang

JL Lehners, P McFadden, N Turok, PJ Steinhardt - Physical Review D …, 2007‏ - APS
We analyze a general mechanism for producing a nearly scale-invariant spectrum of
cosmological curvature perturbations during a contracting phase preceding a big bang …

Strong gravitational lensing by braneworld black holes

R Whisker - Physical Review D—Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and …, 2005‏ - APS
In this paper, we use the strong field limit approach to investigate the gravitational lensing
properties of braneworld black holes. Applying this method to the supermassive black hole …

Cosmological super-bounce

M Koehn, JL Lehners, BA Ovrut - Physical Review D, 2014‏ - APS
We study a model for a nonsingular cosmic bounce in N= 1 supergravity, based on
supergravity versions of the ghost condensate and cubic Galileon scalar field theories. The …

Designing cyclic universe models

J Khoury, PJ Steinhardt, N Turok - Physical review letters, 2004‏ - APS
The phenomenological constraints on the scalar field potential in cyclic models of the
Universe are presented. We show that cyclic models require a comparable degree of tuning …

Loop-corrected compactifications of the heterotic string with line bundles

R Blumenhagen, G Honecker… - Journal of High Energy …, 2005‏ - iopscience.iop.org
We consider the E 8× E 8 heterotic string theory compactified on Calabi-Yau manifolds with
bundles containing abelian factors in their structure group. Generic low energy …