# Light hyperweak new gauge bosons from kinetic mixing in string models

De Notariis, Kevin (2019) Light hyperweak new gauge bosons from kinetic mixing in string models. [Laurea magistrale], Università di Bologna, Corso di Studio in Fisica [LM-DM270]
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## Abstract

String theory is at the moment our best candidate for a unified quantum theory of gravity, aiming to reconcile all the known (and unknown) interactions with gravity as well as provide insights for currently mysterious phenomena that the Standard Model and the modern Cosmology are not able to explain. In fact, it is believed that most of the problems associated to the Standard Model can indeed be resolved in string theory. Supersymmetry is supposed to be an elegant solution to the Hierarchy problem (even though more and more stringent bounds in this direction are being placed by the fact that we have been unable to experimentally find supersymmetry yet), while all the axions that compactifications bring into play can be used to resolve the strong CP problem as well as provide good candidates for Dark Matter. Inflationary models can also be constructed in string theory, providing, then, the most diffused solution to the Horizon problem. This work, in particular, is formulated in type IIB string theory compactified on an orientifolded Calabi-Yau three-fold in LARGE Volume Scenario (LVS) and focuses on the stabilisation of all the moduli in play compatible with the construction of a hidden gauge sector whose gauge boson kinetically mixes to the visible sector U(1), acquiring a mass via a completely stringy process resulting in the St{\"u}ckelberg mechanism. The "compatibility" regards the fact that certain experimental bounds should be respected combined with recent data extrapolated by Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering (CE$\nu$NS) events at the Spallation Neutron Source at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. We are going to see that in this context we will be able to fix all the moduli as well as present a brane and fluxes set-up reproducing the correct mass and coupling of the hidden gauge boson. We also get a TeV scale supersymmetry, since the gravitino in this model will be of order O(TeV), with an uplifted vacuum to reproduce a de Sitter universe as well.

Abstract
Tipologia del documento
Tesi di laurea (Laurea magistrale)
Autore della tesi
De Notariis, Kevin
Relatore della tesi
Scuola
Corso di studio
Indirizzo
Curriculum A: Teorico generale
Ordinamento Cds
DM270
Parole chiave
String Theory,Moduli Stabilisation,String Compactification,Calabi-Yau,Kinetic Mixing,Hidden Gauge Sector,String Phenomenology,Axions,Type IIB,Dp-branes,Moduli Space,Orientifolding,Supersymmetry Breaking,Perturbative Corrections,Non-perturbative Corrections,String Loop Corrections,K3 Fibrations,Calabi-Yau in Toric Ambient Spaces,Fayet-Iliopoulos Term,SUGRA,4D type IIB Supergravity,Kahler Moduli,Complex Structure Moduli,Axio-Dilaton,LVS,Large Volume Scenario,Uplifting,Algebraic Geometry,Standard Model Extensions
Data di discussione della Tesi
13 Dicembre 2019
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