Instability of Collective Strong-interaction Phenomena in Hadron Production as a Possible Origin of the Weak and Electromagnetic Interactions*

A systematic calculus of long-range Regge cut effects in multiparticle production is constructed in the form of an infra-reddivergent stochastic field theory. Total cross-sections and two-body overlap integrals in such a theory may depend very sensitively upon internal quantum-lumbers of incident particles, resulting in a strong symmetry breaking at ultra-high energies. Such symmetry violations will influence low energy processes through dispersion relations, and a bootstrap of weak interactions becomes possible. A rough analytic estimate of the scale of thresholds for such effects yields a BCS-type gap equation, which expresses the scale of weak and electromagnetic couplings in terms of purely strong-interaction parameters. Work performed under the auspices of the United States Energy Research and Development Administration.