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Benjamin Percival

Research Interests

I'm currently a postdoc at Liverpool University after completing my PhD in 2022 under the supervision of Alon Faraggi, also in the String and BSM Phenomenology Group. My research interests are:

  • Exploring phenomenological characteristics of classes of models in the string landscape. In particular, those arising from Z_2 x Z_2 orbifold compactifications.
  • Issues of tachyonic instability and the cosmological constant problem in the context of non-supersymmetric strings.
  • Moduli fixing through asymmetric orbifolds to constrain the string potential in order to help construct stable de-Sitter string vacua
  • Interpolations of string partition functions in different dimensions.
  • Applications of artificial intelligence to the string landscape, such as work on Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMTs).

Here's My CV and my publications can be found on Inspire and Arxiv.

Teaching

I am currently giving lectures to some PhD students in the String and BSM group at Liverpool. Lecture notes are forthcoming and the recordings are available at: Model Building from Heterotic String Orbifolds Playlist . I have also been lecturing a second year undergrad course: MATH254 Probability and Statistics II at University of Liverpool.