HEP Theory Journal Club

Distance conjecture, species scale, and the pattern

Brian McPeak

McGill

It has been observed in examples in string theory that moving massless moduli infinite distances in field space has the effect of causing a tower of states to become light, and causing the species scale to become light, exponentially fast in the distance. In this talk, I will review these two observations – the so-called Distance Conjecture and Species Scale Distance Conjecture – and I will discuss recent work uncovering a universal “Patten” relating the two.