Moduli Stabilisation and Applications in IIB String Theory

TL;DR

This thesis explores moduli stabilization in IIB string theory, detailing the statistical landscape, large-volume models, and their applications to phenomenology including supersymmetry, inflation, and axions.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive review of moduli stabilization techniques and applies them to key phenomenological issues in string theory.

Findings

Analysis of complex structure moduli stabilization statistics

Detailed construction of large-volume models

Applications to supersymmetry breaking and inflation

Abstract

This article represents the author's PhD thesis. It describes moduli stabilisation in IIB string theory and applications to phenomenological topics. The first half of the thesis starts with an introductory review. It continues with an account of the statistics of complex structure moduli stabilisation before moving to Kahler moduli stabilisation. It describes in detail the large-volumes models and justifies the assumptions used in their construction. The second half of the thesis is concerned with applications to phenomenological topics. These include supersymmetry breaking and soft terms, inflationary model building and axions.