TASI Lectures on Remnants from the String Landscape
James Halverson, Paul Langacker

TL;DR
This paper surveys common remnants from string theory's landscape, like new particles and features, discussing their potential observable signatures and implications for testing or falsifying string theory.
Contribution
It provides a comprehensive overview of stringy remnants and their phenomenology, highlighting their potential as indirect evidence for string theory.
Findings
Remnants include moduli, axions, Z' bosons, extended Higgs sectors, and exotics.
These remnants could lead to observable signatures at the LHC.
Observation of certain features could falsify aspects of the string landscape.
Abstract
Superstring theories are very promising theoretically, but the enormous landscape of string vacua and the (likely) very large underlying string scale imply that they may never be tested directly. Nevertheless, concrete constructions consistent with the observed world frequently lead to observable remnants, i.e., new particles or features that are apparently accidental consequences of the ultraviolet theory and that are typically not motivated by specific shortcomings of the standard models of particle physics or cosmology. For example, moduli, axions, large extended gauge sectors, additional gauge bosons, extended Higgs/Higgsino sectors, and quasi-chiral exotics are extremely common. They motivate alternative cosmological paradigms and could lead to observable signatures at the LHC. Similar features can emerge in other standard model extensions, but in the stringy case they are…
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TopicsParticle physics theoretical and experimental studies · Computational Physics and Python Applications · Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems
