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Making the Great Desert Bloom

  • Jacques Distler
  • Andreas Karch
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Abstract

The absence of new physics beyond neutrino masses between the weak scale and the Planck scale is referred to as the great desert. It is often seen as a nightmare scenario for particle physics. Here we argue, by contrast, that the great desert assumption in fact has dramatic implications: it predicts that the Standard Model has a semi-classical AdS4 vacuum with CFT3 dual and, under reasonable assumptions, must be accompanied by at least one extra dimension significantly larger than Planck length. We also present one plausible candidate CFT3 to be ``the" dual to the Standard Model.

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BibTeX
@misc{distler2026making,
  title = {{Making the Great Desert Bloom}},
  author = {Jacques Distler and Andreas Karch},
  howpublished = {arXiv},
  year = {2026},
  month = sep,
  doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.16154},
  eprint = {2609.16154},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.16154},
}
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TY  - UNPB
TI  - Making the Great Desert Bloom
AU  - Jacques Distler
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PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/09/14
PB  - arXiv
DO  - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.16154
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AB  - The absence of new physics beyond neutrino masses between the weak scale and the Planck scale is referred to as the great desert. It is often seen as a nightmare scenario for particle physics. Here we argue, by contrast, that the great desert assumption in fact has dramatic implications: it predicts that the Standard Model has a semi-classical AdS_4 vacuum with CFT_3 dual and, under reasonable assumptions, must be accompanied by at least one extra dimension significantly larger than Planck length. We also present one plausible candidate CFT_3 to be ``the" dual to the Standard Model.
ER  -