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THE F{\mathcal F}-LANDSCAPE: DYNAMICALLY DETERMINING THE MULTIVERSE

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We evolve our Multiverse Blueprints to characterize our local neighborhood of the String Landscape and the Multiverse of plausible string, M- and F-theory vacua. Building upon the tripodal foundations of (i) the Flipped SU(5) Grand Unified Theory (GUT), (ii) extra TeV-Scale vector-like multiplets derived out of F-theory, and (iii) the dynamics of No-Scale supergravity, together dubbed No-Scale F{\cal F}-SU(5), we demonstrate the existence of a continuous family of solutions which might adeptly describe the dynamics of distinctive universes. This Multiverse landscape of F{\cal F}-SU(5) solutions, which we shall refer to as the F{\cal F}-Landscape, accommodates a subset of universes compatible with the presently known experimental uncertainties of our own universe. We show that by secondarily minimizing the minimum of the scalar Higgs potential of each solution within the F{\cal F}-Landscape, a continuous hypervolume of distinct minimum minimorum can be engineered which comprise a regional dominion of universes, with our own universe cast as the bellwether. We conjecture that an experimental signal at the LHC of the No-Scale F{\cal F}-SU(5) framework's applicability to our own universe might sensibly be extrapolated as corroborating evidence for the role of string, M- and F-theory as a master theory of the Multiverse, with No-Scale supergravity as a crucial and pervasive reinforcing structure.
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International Journal of Modern Physics A
Vol. 27, No. 22 (2012) 1250121 (23 pages)
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DOI: 10.1142/S0217751X12501217
THE F-LANDSCAPE:
DYNAMICALLY DETERMINING THE MULTIVERSE
TIANJUN LI,∗,†JAMES A. MAXIN†and DIMITRI V. NANOPOULOS†,‡,§
∗Key Laboratory of Frontiers in Theoretical Physics,
Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences,
Beijing 100190, P. R. China
†George P. and Cynthia W. Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy,
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA
‡Astroparticle Physics Group, Houston Advanced Research Center (HARC ),
Mitchell Campus, Woodlands, TX 77381, USA
§Academy of Athens, Division of Natural Sciences,
28 Panepistimiou Avenue, Athens 10679, Greece
JOEL W. WALKER
Department of Physics, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX 77341, USA
Received 3 June 2012
Accepted 27 June 2012
Published 23 August 2012
We evolve our Multiverse Blueprints to characterize our local neighborhood of the String
Landscape and the Multiverse of plausible string, M- and F-theory vacua. Building
upon the tripodal foundations of (i) the Flipped SU (5) Grand Unified Theory (GUT),
(ii) extra TeV-Scale vector-like multiplets derived out of F-theory, and (iii) the dynamics
of No-Scale supergravity, together dubbed No-Scale F-SU (5), we demonstrate the exis-
tence of a continuous family of solutions which might adeptly describe the dynamics
of distinctive universes. This Multiverse landscape of F-SU (5) solutions, which we
shall refer to as the F-Landscape, accommodates a subset of universes compatible with
the presently known experimental uncertainties of our own universe. We show that by
secondarily minimizing the minimum of the scalar Higgs potential of each solution within
the F-Landscape, a continuous hypervolume of distinct minimum minimorum can be
engineered which comprise a regional dominion of universes, with our own universe cast
as the bellwether. We conjecture that an experimental signal at the LHC of the No-Scale
F-SU (5) framework’s applicability to our own universe might sensibly be extrapolated
as corroborating evidence for the role of string, M- and F-theory as a master theory of the
Multiverse, with No-Scale supergravity as a crucial and pervasive reinforcing structure.
Keywords: Multiverse; supersymmetry; string theory; F-theory; cosmology; dark matter.
PACS numbers: 11.10.Kk, 11.25.Mj, 11.25.-w, 12.60.Jv
1250121-1
... In reality, specific model-based predictions for the Higgs and SUSY structure are intimately correlated, as we shall demonstrate within the context of a particular phenomenologically favorable construction named No- Scale F -SU (5) [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15], which is defined by the convergence of the F -lipped SU (5) [16–18] grand unified theory (GUT), two pairs of hypothetical TeV scale vectorlike supersymmetric multiplets, dubbed flippons, with origins in F -theory [19] [20] [21] [22] [23], and the dynamically established boundary conditions of No-Scale Supergravity [24– 28]. Careful numerical analysis of the viable No-Scale F - SU (5) parameter space yields a prediction for m h in the range of 119.0 GeV to 123.5 GeV [29], consistent with limits from the CMS [30], ATLAS [31] [32], CDF and DØ Collaborations [33]. ...
... II. THE NO-SCALE F-SU(5) MODEL The No-Scale F -SU (5) construction [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] ...
... The intersection of these experimental bounds is highly nontrivial , as the tight theoretical constraints, most notably the vanishing of B µ at the high scale boundary, render the residual parameterization deeply insufficient for arbitrary tuning of even isolated predictions, let alone the union of all predictions. In addition, a top-down consistency condition on the gaugino boundary mass M 1/2 is dynamically determined at a secondary local minimization of the minimum of the Higgs potential V min , which is demonstrably consistent with the bottom-up phenomenological approach [5] [6] [14]. ...
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