CP3 Journal Club

Who: Esben Mølgaard (University of Copenhagen)
When: Friday, February 4, 2011 at 12:00
Where: The CP³ meeting room
Esben Mølgaard will give a talk entitled Taking String Theory to the Standard Model and Beyond. The talk will start with a short recap of string theory, compact dimensions and D-branes. From there it will explore the implications of magnetized or intersecting branes and how these can be used to construct the Standard Model in a string theoretical framework. At last it will explore how this model goes beyond the Standard Model, and how it can be expanded to go even further.

Relevant reading include

• http://arxiv.org/abs/0811.0179: a short talk about magnetized branes and constructing the Standard Model;
• http://www.fys.ku.dk/~et/projects/thesis.pdf: the author’s master thesis which covers the same area, but in greater detail;
• http://arxiv.org/abs/hepth/0307252: Fernando Marchesano’s PhD thesis on intersecting branes.