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08/04/04 Renee Harton SULI Program Event Simulation using Monte Carlo Methods Renee Harton Massachusetts Institute of Technology SULI Program Supervisor: Dr. Stephen Mrenna Computing Division Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Batavia, Illinois

08/04/04 Renee Harton SULI Program Each experiment requires extreme precision, sometimes less than 1% error. This required precision results in experiments that are often costly. Every experiment is simulated before it is actually run. Simulations of the particle collisions that need to be analyzed are detected using simulations of the detector. These simulations allow the lab scientists to: –better understand their instruments. –calibrate and understand the readings of the equipment. Reasons to use simulations

08/04/04 Renee Harton SULI Program My Objective To simulate the collision of particles, using Pythia, an event generator, and Monte Carlo Methods.

08/04/04 Renee Harton SULI Program First Simulated Collision To simulate an electron and positron collision

08/04/04 Renee Harton SULI Program Before using Pythia, an hbook file must be created where all of the above parameters are set. Example of an hbook file

08/04/04 Renee Harton SULI Program After manipulating the MSTP(43) parameter (composition of Z boson), I was able to simulate the collision of an electron and a positron which would result in the formation of either a Z boson (a massive neutral carrier particle of the weak force), a photon, (the carrier of the electromagnetic force), or a quantum mechanical state that is a result of the interference of the two possible wave functions. e+e- electron positron Process Forms a process

08/04/04 Renee Harton SULI Program Sample Log A log file is created after running the file with the specified parameters through Pythia Each particle involved in each event is labeled for example: e- for an electron This label is followed by a number code which distinguishes each particle. The number code column is then followed by the origin which numbers each particle to show the physicist when the particle was created and decayed. The primary particles have 0 as their origin, the final particles are not surrounded by parentheses to signify that they do not decay.

08/04/04 Renee Harton SULI Program The Monte Carlo Method After the log file is created, one can extract specific data and create histograms using the Physics Analysis Workstation (PAW). After running several events, using Pythia, the average fit of all of these events will produce information which models real life, this is the idea behind the Monte Carlo Method.

08/04/04 Renee Harton SULI Program Using PAW, I was able to look at the angle that the down quark made with respect to the original electron path in each event e- ddbar Angle being measured e+ Manipulating Data Using PAW

08/04/04 Renee Harton SULI Program interferencephoton Z boson Histograms Histograms showing number of events vs. angular distribution After the histogram is plotted, a fitted curve can be added to the histogram.

08/04/04 Renee Harton SULI Program When the electron-positron process formed a Z boson or the quantum mechanical interference state, in the majority of the events the down quark stayed in the same direction as the original electron. e+e- d When the electron-positron process formed a photon, the amount of particles that continued on the original electron’s path was equal to the amount of events where the quark recoiled. e+e- d d e+ Interpreting the Histograms Note: The antiparticles are not shown.

08/04/04 Renee Harton SULI Program 2 nd Project Instead of altering the electron-positron process being formed, I forced the process to be a zboson and instead changed the flavor of the quark formed. I measured the cosine of the angle of the trajectory with respect to the original electron’s path.

08/04/04 Renee Harton SULI Program Histograms Bottom Strange Down Up Charm

08/04/04 Renee Harton SULI Program Analysis of 2 nd Project After fitting curves to the quark histograms, I realized that the fits of the bottom, strange, and down quarks could be classified as one group while the histograms of the decays into up and charm quarks could be grouped into another. These differences in fits result from the different masses of the quarks.

08/04/04 Renee Harton SULI Program Third Project Before this project, I looked at events where the quarks produced in the Z boson decay were observed directly, but this is not what happens in nature. In this project I was to take into account parton scattering or showering when observing the collisions of electrons and positrons.

08/04/04 Renee Harton SULI Program e- antiqq gluon Q-gluon Jet 1 Jets The quark that is a product of the first decay releases gluons and in the process loses energy to the propagation of the gluon and the formation of this gluon from the mass of the original quark. Instead of a distinct quark that travels through space, after several jets the quark detected has a much lower energy than the original quark from the initial decay. Instead of turning the final state radiation parameter off, I turned on the MSTP(71) (final state radiation) parameter and thus allowed the third generation quark to shower, and thus form jets.

08/04/04 Renee Harton SULI Program In both cases there were only two jets because I did not alter the binding parameter PARU(44) When final state radiation was not allowed both jets had the same energy. When final state radiation was allowed the jets were different. The most energetic jet could be greater than 45 GeV. The 2nd most energetic jet could be less than 45 GeV, but not higher. Analysis of the Third Project

08/04/04 Renee Harton SULI Program After allowing final state radiation to occur, I compared the energy of the different jets to the cases when the radiation parameter was turned off. In both cases there were only two jets because I did not alter the binding parameter PARU(44), When final state radiation was not allowed both jets had the same energy. When final state radiation was allowed the jets were different. The most energetic event could be greater than 45 GeV The 2 nd most energetic event could be less than 45 GeV, but not higher. The Z boson decays into a down quark and its antiparticle Example 1: If the down quark does not change color, the energy of the jets is the same the Z boson decays into a down quark and its antiparticle, Example 2: The down quark changes color and exchanges a gluon which accounts for the lower energy of the 2nd jet. Analysis of the Third Project

08/04/04 Renee Harton SULI Program Fourth Project I simulated the collision between a down hadron with its antiparticle. This collision resulted in the formation of a Z boson which quickly decayed into quarks and antiquarks. Using Pythia, I was able to restrict the flavor of these resulting quarks and antiquarks. Because quarks prefer colorless systems, they hadronize to form particles like rho mesons, pi mesons, while also releasing force carriers such as gluons and photons. With this setup, I measured the amounts of partons and gluons released some time and distance after the collision.

08/04/04 Renee Harton SULI Program Results of the Fourth Project By changing the flavor of the quarks that resulted from the decay of the Z boson, the number and type of partons and particles released and/or formed changed. Upon observing the different types of partons created after the hadronization of the partons, one could see that a pi(0) meson usually decays into two photons. However, a more subtle occurrence was the equal numbers of pi(0), pi(+), and pi(-) mesons created. This is masked by the fact that the pi(0) has a shorter life than its other charged counterparts. It quickly decays into two photons. The equal amounts of each meson indicates the existence of isospin, an intrinsic property of quarks, which the strong force conserves during hadronization.

08/04/04 Renee Harton SULI Program Conclusion Using Pythia, an event generator, and Monte Carlo Methods, the ideal collision of an electron and positron was simulated. After simulating the collision where a down quark and its antiquark were the result, the flavor of the resulting quark was altered. After allowing the Z boson to decay into all of the possible flavors, a parameter within Pythia was changed to account for parton scattering. After working with leptons, a collision between hadrons was simulated. This collision was clouded by the clustering of quarks via gluons in order to make colorless systems. This phenomenon is known as hadronization.