A scale-invariant quadratic gravity plus hidden QCD-like sector can generate the Planck and electroweak scales, realize Starobinsky inflation, and produce dark matter from scalaron decay, with candidate masses around 10^8 to 10^11 GeV.
An introduction to technicolor
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In these lectures we present the motivation for dynamical electroweak symmetry breaking and its most popular realization, technicolor. We introduce the basic ideas of technicolor and its companion theory of flavor, extended technicolor. We review the classical theory of technicolor, based on naive scaling from quantum chromodynamics, and discuss the classical theory's fatal flaws. Finally, we describe the principal attempt to correct these flaws, the theory of walking technicolor.
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Dark matter in scale-invariant gravity with hidden-sector condensation
A scale-invariant quadratic gravity plus hidden QCD-like sector can generate the Planck and electroweak scales, realize Starobinsky inflation, and produce dark matter from scalaron decay, with candidate masses around 10^8 to 10^11 GeV.