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The data strongly supports the universe's inflation at a very early time, detailing supersymmetric particles' production and experimental studies from LEP and Fermilab. Particle Data Group confirms proton decay with a lifetime of around 10^33 years. Different string types like I, IIA, and IIB are explored along with brane configurations like E8 x E8 and 11-dimensional branes. Explore Kaluza-Klein vacuum decay and potential metastable states in this comprehensive study.
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The data strongly supports the idea that the universe underwent a period of ``inflation" at some very early time (t » 10-36 sec).
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g,Z e+ ~ m ~ m e- Production of supersymmetric particles
Detailed experimentalStudies from LEP,Fermilab From Particle Data Group
Signature: Proton Decay Signature: Proton Decay Lifetime » 1033 years Lifetime of order current experimental Limit (1033 years)
Closed String Open String
Type I IIA O(32) IIB 11-d E8 x E8
S1 M4 x
Standard Brane Hidden Brane g Gmn q g
V(R) ? R
Decay of Kaluza-Klein Vacuum – to nothing
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V | f E 101000 metastable states?