[6] viXra:0910.0051 [pdf] submitted on 27 Oct 2009
Authors: Ervin Goldfain
Comments: 7 pages, Published in Nonlinear Phenomena in Complex Systems 8:4 (2005), 366-372.
Gauge bosons are fundamental fields that mediate the electroweak interaction of leptons and quarks.
The underlying mechanism explaining how gauge bosons acquire mass is neither definitively settled nor
universally accepted and several competing theories coexist. The prevailing paradigm is that boson
masses arise as a result of coupling to a hypothetical scalar field called the Higgs boson. Within the
current range of accelerator technology, compelling evidence for the Higgs boson is missing. We discuss
in this paper a derivation of boson masses that bypasses the Higgs mechanism and is formulated on
the basis of complexity theory. The key premise of our work is that the dynamics of the gauge field
may be described as a stochastic process caused by the short range of electroweak interaction. It is
found that, if this process is driven by Levy statistics, mass generation in the electroweak sector can
be naturally accounted for. Theoretical predictions are shown to agree well with experimental data.
Category: High Energy Particle Physics
[5] viXra:0910.0045 [pdf] replaced on 2012-01-04 09:54:20
Authors: John A. Gowan
Comments: 13 Pages.
The significance of proton decay is that it is the end-point of time and temporal entropy for matter, in much the same way we might say the black hole is the end-point of space and spatial entropy for light. Again we find that "the extremes meet": proton decay is surely commonplace inside black holes, while Hawking's "quantum radiance" returns bound energy to free energy and temporal entropy to spatial entropy.
The notion that the ratio of force strengths relates the "heat death" and the "information death" of the Cosmos via proton decay suggests that if we knew one we would know the other; unfortunately, we know neither, and our force ratio is a pure number, without units. Nevertheless, I will use it to make a naive guess at the proton's lifetime. The lower experimental bound on proton decay is currently 10(35) years. According to the hypothesis advanced here, that the proton lifetime reflects the force ratio, in 2.5 x 10(41) seconds all protons will have decayed, which, curiously enough, yields an observational expectation (8 x 10(33) years) not far off the current lower experimental bound.
Category: High Energy Particle Physics
[4] viXra:0910.0042 [pdf] submitted on 21 Oct 2009
Authors: Ervin Goldfain
Comments: 11 pages, Published in Intl. Journal for Nonlinear Science 3 (2007), 170-180
Bringing closure to the host of open questions posed by the current Standard Model
for particle physics (SM) continues to be a major challenge for theoretical physics community.
Motivated by recent advances in the study of complex systems, our work suggests that the
pattern of particle masses and gauge couplings emerges from the critical dynamics of renormalization
group equations. Using the ε-expansion method along with the universal path to chaos
in unimodal maps, we find that the observed hierarchies of SM parameters amount to a series
of scaling ratios depending on the Feigenbaum constant.
Category: High Energy Particle Physics
[3] viXra:0910.0022 [pdf] replaced on 2011-12-24 13:41:16
Authors: John A. Gowan
Comments: 9 Pages.
There is a very good reason why the field vectors of the weak force involve the hugely massive Intermediate Vector Bosons (IVBs) and the associated Higgs boson (while the field vectors of the other forces, the photon, gluon, and graviton, are simple massless energy forms): the weak force is the only force that creates and/or transforms "singlet" elementary particles (single particles without antimatter partners). Single particles cannot be directly produced from the vacuum "zoo" of virtual (and symmetric) particle-antiparticle pairs, as in the case of electromagnetic or strong force particle-pair production (in collisions, for example). Hence some other mechanism for reproducing the original conserved parameters of elementary particles must be employed.
Single elementary particles created today must be the same in all respects as those created eons ago during the "Big Bang", and the massive and elaborate mechanism of the weak force is the only way to accomplish this imperative of energy and symmetry conservation - the invariance of the mass and charge of all elementary particles, wherever and whenever they may be created. It is also for this reason that the whole mechanism is quantized in terms of invariant Higgs boson and IVB mass.
The large mass of the Higgs and IVBs actually recreates the energy-density of the primordial environment in which the elementary particles whose transformations they now mediate were originally created. A weak force transformation is in effect a mimi- "Big Bang", reproduceing the conditions of the macro- "Big Bang", so that the elementary particles produced by each are the same in every respect. This is the only way such a replication could be accomplished after eons of entropic evolution by the Cosmos. The role of the Higgs is to select the appropriate unified force symmetric energy-density state (usually the electroweak force unification energy level) for the transformation at hand; the IVBs associated with that particular symmetric energy state (the "W" family of IVBs in the electroweak case) then perform the transformation. The Higgs provides the mass scalar for the process, the IVBs provide the actual transformation mechanism. (See: "The 'W' IVB and the Weak Force Mechanism".)
Within a particular unified force symmetric energy state, transformations appropriate to that state are but the natural course of events. At the electroweak energy level, all quark "flavors" are equivalent (and hence readily swapped or transformed), and all lepton flavors are likewise equivalent, but the quark and lepton families do not intermingle. At the next higher "G.U.T." energy level, quark and lepton families also merge their separate identities and exchange flavors. In addition to our electromagnetic "ground state", there may be three higher unified force energy-density levels - the electroweak, the "G.U.T." and the "T.O.E.", each with its own Higgs boson ("H1", "H2", "H3") and associated IVB "family" ("W", "X", "Y"). (See: "Table of the Higgs Cascade".)
Category: High Energy Particle Physics
[2] viXra:0910.0009 [pdf] replaced on 16 Oct 2010
Authors: Ervin Goldfain
Comments: 10 pages, Published in the Electronic Journal of Theoretical Physics, EJTP 7, No. 23 (2010) 75–84.
We present analytic evidence that the distribution of hadron masses follows from the universal transition to
chaos in non-equilibrium field theory. It is shown that meson and baryon spectra obey a scaling hierarchy
with critical exponents ordered in natural progression. Numerical predictions are found to be in close
agreement with experimental data.
Category: High Energy Particle Physics
[1] viXra:0910.0005 [pdf] replaced on 3 Nov 2010
Authors: Ervin Goldfain
Comments: 4 pages, Paper published in Nonl. Sci. Lett. A, vol.1, No.1, 39-42, 2010.
In this report we argue that complex dynamics has the potential of becoming a key tool
for the "new physics" sector of particle theory. The report includes a list of candidate
signals for "new physics" that were recently recorded above the scale of electroweak
interaction. Some of the pioneering efforts directed towards application of complex
dynamics in high-energy physics are briefly surveyed.
Category: High Energy Particle Physics