Misc,
The Nightmare Scenario and the Origin of the Standard Model. "We Got it Wrong ...How did we misread the signals? ... What to Do?"
(Jun 5, 2014)
Abstract
It is thought that the emergence of the "nightmare scenario" at the LHC could
be a serious crisis for particle physics that could require radical new
concepts and even a major paradigm change. A root cause may have been
exaggeration of the significance of asymptotic freedom, leading to the
historically profound mistake of formulating new short-distance extensions of
the Standard Model while ignoring both serious infra-red problems and central
elements of long-distance physics. In fact, pursuit of the uniquely unitary
Critical Pomeron leads to a possible gauge theory origin for the Standard Model
that is both radical and paradigm changing, but also explains many mysteries. A
bound-state S-Matrix embedded in a unique weak coupling massless SU(5) field
theory emerges. The states and interactions of the Standard Model are enhanced,
and the underlying SU(5) unification suppressed, by a wee parton divergence
phenomenon involving wee gauge bosons coupled to S-Matrix massless fermion
anomalies. Confinement, chiral symmetry breaking, the parton model, electroweak
symmetry breaking, dark matter, and neutrino masses, all appear to be present.
Most significantly, perhaps, there is a Higgs boson but, as seen experimentally
at the LHC, there is no new short-distance physics. The only new physics is
electroweak-scale QCD interactions due to color sextet quarks.
