A novel left - right symmetric model

A novel gauge model which has a spontaneously broken parity symmetry is constructed. The model has only 2 parameters beyond those of the standard model. Some of the unusual implications of the model are discussed. 1 Email: [email protected] The standard model of particle physics (SM) is an extremely successful description of past and existing experiments. At present there is no experimental indication of a deficiency in the SM. In view of this it is not surprising that there is divided opinion about what lies beyond the SM. However, a diversity of opinions on how to connect the known to the unknown is not necessarily a bad thing given that there exists no guaranteed way of making this connection. On the other hand, a reading of the current literature on particle physics could give the mistaken view that the ideas of grand unification and supersymmetry are so well motivated and unique that it is only a matter of time before they are found to be true. Indeed, some people are even advocating spending billions of dollars to test some of the parameter space of some supersymmetric grand unified models [1]. We feel that this attitude to physics beyond the SM is an extremely biased interpretation and extrapolation of existing knowledge. Unfortunately, this bias in the literature has remained unchecked and has been (and still is) detrimental to the advance of particle physics (and to the tax payer) in terms of both theory and experiment. It is detrimental to theoretical physics in the sense that the number and variety of hypotheses generated to guess at the new physics becomes suppressed. The situation for experimental physics is no better because the bias in theory leads to a bias in experiments. Finally, it is tax payer unfriendly because the proponents of supersymmetric grand unified theories demand large accelerators to be built which are currently very expensive. The current situation is quite different to the era before the discovery of the W and Z gauge bosons. The theoretical case for the existence of the W and Z gauge bosons was very strong. Their masses could be approximately predicted from the data already obtained in low energy experiments. In this case there were strong physics reasons to build the necessary colliders to study these gauge bosons. Unfortunately, the standard model works so well, that there is, at present, no experimental evidence for new physics beyond the standard model. Of course, this does not mean that there is no new physics beyond the standard model. In all likelihood there is new physics, but there is an infinite number of possibilities for what this new physics might be. In light of this current situation, it is rather unimaginative of the particle physics community to spend so much effort repeatedly studying the possibility of supersymmetric grand unified theories. This does little to advance the theory of elementary particles. In our opinion, these theories are uninteresting. Grand unification can be motivated from experiment because