String Theory and Physics beyond the Standard Model

Representation of a
Calabi-Yau manifold

(by J. F. Colonna)

Topics:

• String Compactifications, String Phenomenology and String Model Building
• Physics Beyond the Standard Model
• Eternal Inflation, Slow-Roll Inflation, Particle-Cosmology, Quantum Gravity and the Swampland Program

Current Projects:

• How certain are we about the existence of metastable de-Sitter vacua in string theory?
• Swampland Conjectures: Cobordism and End-of-The-World Branes
• Axions and other light particles in the string theory landscape
• The measure problem of eternal inflation and the string multiverse (see also Mathematical Physics Heidelberg)

Recent and upcoming group seminar talks:

Research Seminar and Journal Club "String Theory and BSM"

Recent publications of some group members:

Please have a look here.

External Funding:

• Heidelberg Cluster of Excellence "Structures"
• International Max Planck Research School for Precision Tests of Fundamental Symmetries in Particle Physics, Nuclear Physics, Atomic Physics and Astroparticle Physics at the Heidelberg University" (IMPRS-PTFS)

Old Group Pages