The FL bound and its phenomenological implications
  Demanding that charged Nariai black holes in (quasi-)de Sitter space decay
without becoming super-extremal implies a lower bound on the masses of charged
particles, known as the Festina Lente (FL) bound. In this paper we fix the
$\mathcal{O}(1)$ constant in the bound and elucidate various aspects of it, as
well as extensions to $d>4$ and to situations with scalar potentials and
dilatonic couplings. We also discuss phenomenological implications of FL
including an explanation of why the Higgs potential cannot have a local minimum
at the origin, thus explaining why the weak force must be broken. For
constructions of meta-stable dS involving anti-brane uplift scenarios, even
though the throat region is consistent with FL, the bound implies that we
cannot have any light charged matter fields coming from any far away region in
the compactified geometry, contrary to the fact that they are typically
expected to arise in these scenarios. This strongly suggests that introduction
of warped anti-branes in the throat cannot be decoupled from the bulk dynamics
as is commonly assumed. Finally, we provide some evidence that in certain
situations the FL bound can have implications even with gravity decoupled and
illustrate this in the context of non-compact throats.
