Raymond Stora and les Houches

SUSY Les Houches Accord 2

The Supersymmetry Les Houches Accord (SLHA) [1] provides a universal set of conventions for conveying spectral and decay information for supersymmetry analysis problems in high energy physics. Here, we propose extensions of the conventions of the first SLHA to include various generalisations: the minimal supersymmetric standard model with violation of CP, R-parity, and flavour, as well as the s...

Les Houches Lectures on Strings and Arithmetic∗

These are lecturenotes for two lectures delivered at the Les Houches workshop on Number Theory, Physics, and Geometry, March 2003. They review two examples of interesting interactions between number theory and string compactification, and raise some new questions and issues in the context of those examples. The first example concerns the role of the Rademacher expansion of coefficients of modul...

A Les Houches Interface for BSM Generators

We propose to combine and slightly extend two existing “Les Houches Accords” to provide a simple generic interface between beyond-the-standardmodel parton-level and event-level generators. All relevant information — particle content, quantum numbers of new states, masses, cross sections, partonlevel events, etc — is collected in one single file, which adheres to the Les Houches Event File (LHEF...

Les Houches Lectures on Constructing String Vacua

These lectures give a detailed introduction to constructing and analyzing string vacua suitable for phenomenological model building, with particular emphasis on F-theory flux vacua. Topics include (1) general challenges and overview of some proposed scenarios, (2) an extensive introduction to F-theory and its relation to M-theory and perturbative IIB string theory, (3) F-theory flux vacua and m...

Les Houches Lectures on Black Holes