Higgs-free confinement hierarchy in five colour QCD
arXiv:0707.2626 · doi:10.1143/PTP.119.139
Abstract
I consider the monopole condensate of five color QCD. The naive lowest energy state is unobtainable at one-loop for five or more colors due to simple geometric considerations. The consequent adjustment of the vacuum condensate generates a hierarchy of confinement scales in a natural Higgs-free manner. The accompanying symmetry hierarchy contains hints of standard model phenomenology.
9 pages, PTP class file, discussion at bottom of page 5 corrected