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In article <1992Nov15.160502.17467@husc3.harvard.edu>, mcirvin@scws1.harvard.edu (Mcirvin) writes...
>In article <15NOV199206450358@utahep.uta.edu> sawyer@utahep.uta.edu (Lee Sawyer) writes:
>>Any bump in the two photon invariant mass
>>spectrum is most likely some sort of technipion. And as a friend of mine
>>whispered to me during a talk on technicolor theory,"If this is how
>>God made the universe, I want out !"
> 
>Forgive me if this sounds idiotic, but isn't it the basic idea behind
>technicolor that there *aren't* any technipions?  Or are we talking about
>a situation in which not all of the spontaneously broken degrees of
>freedom are gauged, so that some of the Goldstone bosons survive the
>Higgs mechanism?
>-- 
>Matt McIrvin

OK I am stepping way out of my expertise, but I think that, at least
in extended technicolor theories, there are "pseudoGoldstone" bosons
left - the technipions. The number depends on the guage group used,
and in my opinion is a muddle. I just happen to be reading
_The Higgs Hunters' Guide_ (I kid you not) by Gunion, Haber,
Kane, and Dawson. A very good intro to this stuff.

Actually a theorist followed one of the Delphi talks on this 
alleged bump with a talk on some sort of \eta_6 walking techni
thingamabob, which apparently would not couple to the quarks
or neutrinos. I missed that talk, maybe someone else could
summarize...

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         Lee Sawyer                                  

         Dept of Physics                          
         Univ. of Texas                            
               at Arlington