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any evidence accumulating in favor of technicolor

 
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Jun15-12, 10:59 PM   #1
 

any evidence accumulating in favor of technicolor


this is from lisa randall's knocking on heaven's door


Back in the 1970s, physicists also first considered an alternative potential solution to the hierarchy problem known as technicolor. Models under this rubric involve particles that interact strongly via a new force, playfully named the technicolor force. The proposal was that technicolor acts similarly to the strong nuclear force (which is also known as the color force among physicists), but binds particles together at the weak energy scale—not the proton mass scale.
If technicolor is indeed the answer to the hierarchy problem, the LHC wouldn’t produce a single fundamental Higgs boson. Instead it would produce a bound state, something like a hadron, that would play the role of the Higgs particle. The experimental evidence in support of technicolor would be lots of bound state particles and many strong interactions—very much like the hadrons we are familiar with, but that appear only at much higher energy—at or above the weak scale
Does any know if the LHC has accumulated in favor of technicolor?
 
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Jun15-12, 11:16 PM   #2
 
The LHC has appeared to rule out Technicolor as a viable model, or at least that's according to Nima Arkani Hamed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xmgY4_HXmA

I believe this talk is slightly old though.
 
Jun15-12, 11:52 PM   #3
 
is your profile in reference to leopold bloom? if so today's bloomsday
 
Jun16-12, 01:18 AM   #4
 

any evidence accumulating in favor of technicolor


robertjford80,

Yes! First person to make the connection, congrats. It is indeed Bloomsday although I must admit to never having finished Ulysses. I've read Dubliners and Portrait of the Artist and I've decided to try to make another stab at Ulysses now that I have some more free time.
 
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