STANDARD MODEL WITH COSMOLOGICALLY BROKEN QUANTUM SCALE INVARIANCE

Abstract

We consider a locally scale invariant extension of the Standard Model of particle physics and argue that it fits both the particle and cosmological observations. The model is scale invariant both classically and quantum mechanically. The scale invariance is broken (or hidden) by a mechanism which we refer to as cosmological symmetry breaking. This produces all the dimensionful parameters in the theory. The cosmological constant or dark energy is a prediction of the theory and can be calculated systematically order by order in perturbation theory. It is expected to be finite at all orders. The model does not suffer from the hierarchy problem due to the absence of scalar particles, including the Higgs, from the physical spectrum.