From Stringy Particle Physics to Moduli Stabilisation and Cosmology

Abstract

Intersecting D6-branes provide a geometrically intuitive road to stringy particle physics models, where D6-branes stuck at orbifold singularities can lead to the stabilisation of deformation moduli, and the QCD axion can arise from the open string sector in a very constrained way compared to pure field theory. We demonstrate this interplay of different physical features here through an explicit model.

Comments: 4 pages, contribution to the proceedings of "The String Theory Universe" Workshop in Leuven, 7-11 Sept 2015