Fun with colours: the standard model with two colour QCD has radically different long distance physics
Abstract
In our world the standard model of particle physics contains within it the fairly intractable theory called QCD. A toy version with two colours is often studied as a model confining and chiral symmetry breaking field theory. Here we investigate the cascade of changes at various distance scales if we make this change within the standard model. It is possible to limit the changes at the hadronic scale. However, the minor changes that occur actually cascade down to the far infrared, into nuclear and atomic physics, and chemistry. Through this it also possibly affects the evolution of stars and galaxies. We remark on this unexpected sensitivity of the universe to physics at the scale of quarks.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2012.13856,
title = {Fun with colours: the standard model with two colour QCD has radically different long distance physics},
author = {Saumen Datta and Sourendu Gupta and Rishi Sharma},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.13856},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
Submitted to Indian Journal of Physics memorial issue for Pushan Majumdar