Conformal Alternatives to Higgs
Recently I came across with two independent but apparently similar researches. They are both alternatives to Higgs mechanism and use conformal invariance as the main argument.
First is from Hung Cheng of MIT mathematics department: math-ph/0407010. He is doing a Weyl theory which eats the extra degree of freedom in the Higgs mechanism, so nothing left for it. His Weyl field is not the electromagnetic vector potential and claimed as a dark matter candidate.
Second is from two Polish physicists Pawlowski and Raczka: hep-th/9407137, hep-ph/9610539, hep-th/9808021. They appear to send the missing degree of freedom to the gravitation sector. It is too late at night to check whether there is a way to connect those two theories. Can somebody do that? Or can you see any obvious flaws?
What makes me excited here is the possibility of missing Higgs because of the beautiful conformal symmetry. Although I find Higgs mechanism very elegant and am enthusiastic about all the new physics behind and details of the symmetry breaking; secretly I want it not to be there. Wouldn’t it be simply more fun?
First is from Hung Cheng of MIT mathematics department: math-ph/0407010. He is doing a Weyl theory which eats the extra degree of freedom in the Higgs mechanism, so nothing left for it. His Weyl field is not the electromagnetic vector potential and claimed as a dark matter candidate.
Second is from two Polish physicists Pawlowski and Raczka: hep-th/9407137, hep-ph/9610539, hep-th/9808021. They appear to send the missing degree of freedom to the gravitation sector. It is too late at night to check whether there is a way to connect those two theories. Can somebody do that? Or can you see any obvious flaws?
What makes me excited here is the possibility of missing Higgs because of the beautiful conformal symmetry. Although I find Higgs mechanism very elegant and am enthusiastic about all the new physics behind and details of the symmetry breaking; secretly I want it not to be there. Wouldn’t it be simply more fun?
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