Experimental tests of the SM (1): the strong force FK8022, Lecture 5 Core texts: Review of Particle Physics : QCD minireview Further reading: Quarks and Leptons, an Introductory Course in Modern Physics, Halzen and Martin.
Free parameters of the Standard Model 19 free parameters (massless neutrino version). SM tests require both collider and non-colliders Masses ParameterValueMethod mumu 1.9 MeVLattice mdmd 4.4 MeVLattice msms 87 MeVLattice mcmc 1.3 MeVCollider mbmb 4.24 MeVCollider mtmt 173 GeVCollider meme 511 keVNon-collider mm 106 MeVNon-collider mm 1.78 GeVCollider mzmz 91.2 GeVCollider mHmH 125 GeVCollider Couplings ParameterValueMethod non-collider + collider GFGF 1.17x10 -5 Non-collider ss 0.12Lattice + collider ParameterValueMethod (CKM) 13.1 o Collider (CKM) 2.4 o Collider (CKM) 0.2 o Collider (CKM-CPV) 0.995Collider (strong CP) ~0Non-collider Flavour and CP violation
Free parameters of the Standard Model Masses ParameterValueMethod mumu 1.9 MeVLattice mdmd 4.4 MeVLattice msms 87 MeVLattice mcmc 1.3 MeVCollider mbmb 4.24 MeVCollider mtmt 173 GeVCollider meme 511 keVNon-collider mm 106 MeVNon-collider mm 1.78 GeVCollider mzmz 91.2 GeVCollider mHmH 125 GeVCollider Couplings ParameterValueMethod non-collider + collider GFGF 1.17x10 -5 Non-collider ss 0.12Lattice + collider ParameterValueMethod (CKM) 13.1 o Collider (CKM) 2.4 o Collider (CKM) 0.2 o Collider (CKM-CPV) 0.995Collider (strong CP) ~0Non-collider Flavour and CP violation Collider tests of the strong and electroweak sectors (this lecture). CKM, CPV (lecture 6), Higgs (lectures 8,9)
AcceleratorColliding particles Beam energy (GeV) LabRunning period Physics topics LHC pp 4000, 7000(2015) CERN2008-Higgs, general purpose Tevatron pp 1000Tevatron Top quark, general purpose HERA ep 30( e ), 920 (p)DESY QCD, general purpose CEBAF ep 6( e - )+fixed target JLAB1994-QCD, flavour LEP1,2 e+e-e+e CERN EW,general purpose SLC e+e-e+e- 45SLAC EW, general purpose DAFNE e+e-e+e- 0.5Frescati1999-QCD, flavour PEP-II/Babar e+e-e+e- 9( e - ),3( e + )SLAC Flavour KEKB/Belle e+e-e+e- 8( e - ),4( e + )KEK Flavour BEPC e+e-e+e- 3.7Beijing2008-QCD, flavour Recent and current colliders Diverse and complementary collider program
Strategy for QCD tests
Collider environments to study QCD
Lepton-nucleon deep-inelastic scattering P e e.- ’ P p p P P
= data point x Q2Q2 e - P e e-e- p P p parton xP p parton selected data
DIS cross section
10 F 2 for different scenarios of proton structure x F2F2 H1 experiment at HERA
Quasi-free quarks and Bjorken scaling
Bjorken scaling and the quark parton model Quasi-free quarks Strongly bound quarks
The final part of the story: perturbative QCD processes + + +
Scaling violations HERA Low energy DIS Standard Model
Extraction of s
Testing QCD at e + e - colliders
Event shapes in e + e -
Event shapes
Event shape measurements at LEP Rates over several orders of magnitude. Excellent description of QCD-based models.
Extraction of s e+e+ e-e-
More measurements of s Lecture 9
QCD at hadron-hadron colliders p p hadrons
Jet production at the LHC jet
Summary of QCD tests CollisionObservableDescribed by pQCD s (M z ) HERA (ep) Structure function 0.114±0.002 LEP/SLC (e + e - ) Event shapes ± LHC/Tevatron (hh) Jets World average Combination of many measurements/techniques ±
Measuring the hadronic contribution to e-e- e-e- e +,e - e-e- e-e- e-e- e-e- ++
Summary Range of active and recent colliders – Large general purpose experiments – Small experiments tackling specific problems – Coherent program Each collision environment and collider energy makes a unique contribution to the study of the strong force pQCD remains to be falsified despite increasing precision and energy scale – s (M z ) ±