Probing for the Roots of the Standard Model

Abstract

The differences between the $N=0$ and $N=1$ standard models are emphasized in formulating their short distance extension. We sketch methods to reproduce many of the small numbers in the model in terms of scale ratios, applying see-saw like ideas to the breaking of chiral symmetries. We sketch how the $N=1$ standard model, outfitted with an extra family Abelian symmetry to reproduce the mass hierarchies, naturally fits superstring models, by making use of generic non-renormalizable operators.