Dark dimension with (little) strings attached
Abstract
We motivate a relation between dark energy and the scale of new physics in weakly coupled string theory. This mixing between infrared and ultraviolet physics leads to a unique corner for real-world phenomenology: barring fine-tunings, we are naturally led to the ``dark dimension'' scenario, a single mesoscopic extra dimension of micron size with the standard model localized on D-branes. Our explicit top-down worldsheet derivation establishes it on a more solid grounding. Allowing some fine-tuning, such that the vacuum energy only arise at higher orders in string perturbation theory, the ``little string theory'' scenario with a very weakly coupled string is an alternative possibility. In this case, the string scale lies at the edge of detectability of particle accelerators.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- September 2024
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.2409.12231
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2409.12231
- Bibcode:
- 2024arXiv240912231B
- Keywords:
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- High Energy Physics - Theory;
- General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology;
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
- E-Print:
- 6 pages, 1 figure