A Cosmological Constant That is Too Small

Abstract

We construct a vacuum of string theory in which the magnitude of the vacuum energy is < 10-123 in Planck units. Regrettably, the sign of the vacuum energy is negative, and some supersymmetry remains unbroken.

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