TH Thursday Seminar

The maximal temperature in string compactifications

by Michael Ratz (Bonn University)

→ Europe/Zurich
TH Auditorium (CERN)

TH Auditorium

CERN

Description
Thermal corrections have an important effect on moduli stabilization leading to the existence of a maximal temperature, beyond which the compact dimensions decompactify. The maximal temperature is found to be controlled by the supersymmetry breaking scale, Tcrit ∼ √{m3/2 MP}.