Can the particle mass spectrum be explained within the Standard Model?

Abstract

A modified version of PQCD considered in previous works is investigated here in the case of retaining only the quark condensate. The Green functions generating functional is expressed in a form in which Dirac's delta functions are now absent from the free propagators. The new expansion implements the dimensional transmutation effect through a single interaction vertex in addition to the standard ones in mass less QCD. The new vertex suggests a way for constructing an alternative to the SM in which the mass and CKM matrices could be generated by the instability of masslesss QCD under the production of the top quark and other fermions condensates, in a kind of generalized Nambu Jona Lasinio mechanism. The results of a two loop evaluation of the vacuum energy indicate that the quark condensate is dynamically generated. However, the energy as a function of the condensate parameter is again unbounded from below in this approximation. Assuming the existence of a minimum of the vacuum energy at the experimental value of the top quark mass mq=173 GeV, we evaluate the two particle propagator in the quark anti-quark channel in zero order in the coupling and a ladder approximation in the condensate vertex. Adopting the notion from the former top quark models, in which the Higgs field corresponds to the quark condensate, the results suggest that the Higgs particle could be represented by a meson which might appear at energies around two times the top quark mass.