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Higgs-free confinement hierarchy in five colour QCD

High Energy Physics - Theory 2014-11-18 v2

Abstract

I consider the monopole condensate of five color QCD. The naive lowest energy state is unobtainable at one-loop for five or more colors due to simple geometric considerations. The consequent adjustment of the vacuum condensate generates a hierarchy of confinement scales in a natural Higgs-free manner. The accompanying symmetry hierarchy contains hints of standard model phenomenology.

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@article{arxiv.0707.2626,
  title  = {Higgs-free confinement hierarchy in five colour QCD},
  author = {M. L. Walker},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0707.2626},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

9 pages, PTP class file, discussion at bottom of page 5 corrected

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