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Superstring Phenomenology: An Overview

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Elements of superstring phenomenology, as it presently exists, are reviewed. The coupling constants of string theory are identified. Classical solutions should be relevant at weak coupling; the connection to conformally invariant non-linear sigma models is explained. Compactifications on Calabi-Yau spaces and orbifolds which preserve N=1 supersymmetry are argued to be the most promising. Rather simple phenomenological considerations are shown to severely constrain the properties of the compact six dimensional space. The cosmological constant and the dilaton potential are discussed and we explain why, at weak coupling, there is probably no ground state which resembles our world.

Lectures at the 1986 International School of Subnuclear Physics, Erice, Sicily

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  1. Physics Department, City College of the City University of New York, New York, NY, 10031, USA

    Michael Dine

  2. The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, 08540, USA

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    Antonino Zichichi

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Dine, M. (1990). Superstring Phenomenology: An Overview. In: Zichichi, A. (eds) The Superworld I. The Subnuclear Series, vol 24. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-1318-2_7

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