The Standard Model is Natural as Magnetic Gauge Theory

TL;DR

This paper proposes that the Standard Model can be interpreted as a magnetic dual of a purely fermionic gauge theory, offering a novel perspective on the hierarchy problem and fermion generations.

Contribution

It introduces a duality framework relating the Standard Model to a scalar-free electric theory, providing a new approach to the hierarchy problem and fermion generation count.

Findings

Standard Model as magnetic dual of fermionic gauge theory

Absence of scalars avoids quadratic divergences

Explains why there are at least three fermion generations

Abstract

We suggest that the Standard Model can be viewed as the magnetic dual of a gauge theory featuring only fermionic matter content. We show this by first introducing a Pati-Salam like extension of the Standard Model and then relating it to a possible dual electric theory featuring only fermionic matter. The absence of scalars in the electric theory indicates that the associated magnetic theory is free from quadratic divergences. Our novel solution to the Standard Model hierarchy problem leads also to a new insight on the mystery of the observed number of fundamental fermion generations by naturally explaining why it has to be at least three.