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Dimers and orientifolds (2007)
Journal Article
Franco, S., Hanany, A., Krefl, D., Park, J., Uranga, A., & Vegh, D. (2007). Dimers and orientifolds. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2007(09), Article 075. https://doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2007/09/075

We introduce new techniques based on brane tilings to investigate D3-branes probing orientifolds of toric Calabi-Yau singularities. With these new tools, one can write down many orientifold models and derive the resulting low-energy gauge theories li... Read More about Dimers and orientifolds.

Non-supersymmetric meta-stable vacua from brane configurations (2007)
Journal Article
Franco, S., García-Etxebarria, I., & Uranga, A. (2007). Non-supersymmetric meta-stable vacua from brane configurations. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2007(01), Article 085. https://doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2007/01/085

We construct configurations of NS-, D4-, and D6-branes in type IIA string theory, realizing the recently discussed non-supersymmetric meta-stable minimum of 4d = 1 SU(Nc) super-Yang-Mills theories with massive flavors. We discuss their lift to M-theo... Read More about Non-supersymmetric meta-stable vacua from brane configurations.

Gauge/gravity duality and meta-stable dynamical supersymmetry breaking (2007)
Journal Article
Argurio, R., Bertolini, M., Franco, S., & Kachru, S. (2007). Gauge/gravity duality and meta-stable dynamical supersymmetry breaking. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2007(01), Article 083. https://doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2007/01/083

We engineer a class of quiver gauge theories with several interesting features by studying D-branes at a simple Calabi-Yau singularity. At weak 't Hooft coupling we argue using field theory techniques that these theories admit both supersymmetric vac... Read More about Gauge/gravity duality and meta-stable dynamical supersymmetry breaking.