Strong Coupling and Classicalization
arXiv:1607.07422 · doi:10.1142/9789813208292_0005
Abstract
Classicalization is a phenomenon in which a theory prevents itself from entering into a strong-coupling regime, by redistributing the energy among many weakly-interacting soft quanta. In this way, the scattering process of some initial hard quanta splits into a large number of soft elementary processes. In short, the theory trades the strong coupling for a high-multiplicity of quanta. At very high energies, the outcome of such a scattering experiment is a production of soft states of high occupation number that are approximately classical. It is evident that black hole creation in particle collision at super-Planckian energies is a result of classicalization, but there is no a priory reason why this phenomenon must be limited to gravity. If the hierarchy problem is solved by classicalization, the LHC has a chance of detecting a tower of new resonances. The lowest-lying resonances must appear right at the strong coupling scale in form of short-lived elementary particles. The heavier members of the tower must behave more and more classically: they must be longer lived and decay into higher numbers of soft quanta.
24 pages, Latex. In part, based on lectures given at Erice summer school "Future of Our Physics Including New Frontiers" and at LHC SKI 2016 conference
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