2012/01/29 by W.-S. Hou, Hou, Wei-Shu
Computer Science · Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Nonlinear Dynamics and Pattern Formation #Nonlinear Photonic Systems
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1201.6029
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Yukawa couplings of electroweak Goldstone bosons can be inferred from experiment, but the existence of an elementary Higgs boson is not yet an established fact. If a sequential chiral quark generation does exist, it would bring us now into the strong Yukawa coupling regime. Guided by a Bethe--Salpeter equation approach, we postulate that the leading collapse state, the (heavy) isotriplet and color-singlet π1 meson, becomes the Goldstone boson G itself. Viewing it as a deeply bound state, a gap equation is constructed. This "`bootstrap" picture for electroweak symmetry breaking relies on strong Yukawa coupling, without providing any theory of the latter.