# Scanning the landscape of flux compactifications: vacuum structure and soft supersymmetry breaking

@article{Abdussalam2007ScanningTL,
title={Scanning the landscape of flux compactifications: vacuum structure and soft supersymmetry breaking},
author={Shehu S. Abdussalam and Joseph P. Conlon and F. Quevedo and K. Suruliz},
journal={Journal of High Energy Physics},
year={2007},
volume={2007},
pages={036-036}
}
• Published 3 September 2007
• Physics
• Journal of High Energy Physics
We scan the landscape of flux compactifications for the Calabi-Yau manifold 4[1,1,1,6,9] with two Kahler moduli by varying the value of the flux superpotential W0 over a large range of values. We do not include uplift terms. We find a rich phase structure of AdS and dS vacua. Starting with W0 ~ 1 we reproduce the exponentially large volume scenario, but as W0 is reduced new classes of minima appear. One of them corresponds to the supersymmetric KKLT vacuum while the other is a new, deeper non…
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