Devilish Details in Apes and Atoms

“…Science leads off this week with a story about a new measurement that comes tantalizingly close to overturning the longstanding Standard Model of particle physics.…”
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Logarithmic loop corrections, moduli stabilisation and de Sitter vacua in string theory by Ignatios Antoniadis, Yifan Chen, George K. Leontaris

“…Our result avoids no-go theorems of perturbative stabilisation due to runaway potentials, in a way similar to the Coleman-Weinberg mechanism, and provides a counter example to one of the swampland conjectures concerning de Sitter vacua in quantum grav- ity, once string loop effects are taken into account; it thus paves the way for embedding the Standard Model of particle physics and cosmology in string theory.…”
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Constraints on Neutrino Electric Millicharge from Experiments of Elastic Neutrino-Electron Interaction and Future Experimental Proposals Involving Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus... by A. Parada

“…In several extensions of the Standard Model of Particle Physics (SMPP), the neutrinos acquire electromagnetic properties such as the electric millicharge. …”
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New models of quintessential inflation featuring plateau and hilltop potentials by Swagat S. Mishra, Varun Sahni

“…A key feature of this new class of QI models is the near absence of small dimensionless parameters, or small mass parameters (relative to the energy scale of the Standard Model of particle physics) – which are usually associated with the presence of dark energy. …”
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