all fundamental with no underlying structure Leptons+quarks spin ½ while photon, W, Z, gluons spin 1 No QM theory for gravity Higher generations have larger mass

When/where discovered Nobel Prize? When/where discovered g Mostly Europe 1895-1920 Roentgen (sort of)1901 W/Z CERN 1983 Rubbia/vanderMeer1984 gluon DESY 1979 NO electron Europe 1895-1905 Thomson 1906 muon Harvard 1937 No tau SLAC 1975 Perl 1995 ne US 1953 Reines/Cowan 1995 nm BNL 1962 Schwartz/Lederman/Steinberger 1988 nt FNAL 2000 NO u,d SLAC 1960s Friedman/Kendall/Taylor 1990 s mostly US 1950s NO c SLAC/BNL 1974 Richter/Ting 1976 b FNAL 1978 NO (Lederman) t FNAL 1995 NO muon – Street+Stevenson had “evidence” but Piccione often gets credit in the 1940s as measured lifetime

Couplings and Charges All charged particles interact electromagnetically All particles except gamma and gluon interact weakly (have nonzero “weak” charge) (partially semantics on photon as mixing defined in this way) A WWZ vertex exists Only quarks and gluons interact strongly; have non-zero “strong” charge (called color). This has been tested by: magnetic moment electron and muon H energy levels (Lamb shift) “muonic” atoms. Substitute muon for electron pi-mu atoms EM charge just electric charge q Weak charge – “weak” isospin in i=1/2 doublets used for charged (W) and have I3-Aq for neutral current (Z) Strong charge – color charge triplet “red” “green” “blue”

Strong Force and Hadrons p + p -> p + N* N* are excited states of proton or neutron (all of which are baryons) P = uud n = udd (bound by gluons) where u = up quark (charge 2/3) and d = down quark (charge -1/3) About 20 N states spin ½ mass 938 – 2700 MeV About 20 D states spin 3/2 Charges = uuu(2) uud(1) udd(0) ddd(-1) N,D decay by strong interaction N  p/n + p with lifetimes of 10-23 sec (pion is quark-antiquark meson). Identify by looking at the invariant mass and other kinematic distributions

Baryons and Mesons 3 quark combinations (like uud) are called baryons. Historically first understood for u,d,s quarks “plotted” in isospin (not spin, but puts p/n into an isospin pair)vs strangeness. Have a group of 8 for spin ½ (octet) and 10 (decuplet) for spin 3/2. Fermions and so need antisymmetric wavefunction (and have some duplication of quark flavor like p = uud) Gell-Mann tried to explain using SU(3) but badly broken (seen in different masses) but did point out underlying quarks Mesons are quark-antiquark combinations and so spin 0 or 1. Bosons and need symmetric wavefunction (“simpler” as not duplicating quark flavor) Spin 0 (or spin 1) come in a group of 8 (octet) and a group of 1 (singlet). Again SU(3) sort of explains if there are 3 quarks but badly broken as seen in both the mass variations and the mixing between the singlet and octet

Baryons D0 also

Baryon Wave Functions. Mostly skip Totally Antisymmetric as 3 s=1/2 quarks - Fermions S=3/2. spin part must be symmetric (all “aligned”). There are some states which are quark symmetric (uuu,ddd,sss). As all members of the same multiplet have the same symmetries  quark and spin are both symmetric to be antisymmetric, obey Pauli exclusion, need a new quantum number “color” which comes in 3 (at least) indices. Color wavefunctions:

Baryon Wave Functions. Mostly skip S=1/2. color part is like S=3/2. So spin*quark flavor = symmetric. Adding 3 spin = ½ to give S=1/2 produces “mixed” spin symmetry. First combine two quarks giving symmetric 1<->2 Add on third quark to get first term Cycle 1  2  3  1 8 more terms. And then multiply by 6 color terms from S=3/2 page (12*6=72 terms) Why no charge 2 or charge -1particles like the proton or neutron exist  the need for an antisymmetric wavefunction makes the proton the lightest baryon (which is a good thing for us)

Meson Wave Functions mostly skip quark antiquark combinations. Governed by SU(2) (spin) and strangenessSU(3) (SU(4)) for c-quark). But broken symmetries pions have no s quarks. The h’s (or the w+f) mix to find real particles  break SU(3) meson mass Decay p 135,140 no s h 550 little s h’ 958 mostly s r 770 no s w 782 little s f 1019 85% KK, 15% ppp

Hadron + Quark masses Mass of hadron = mass of constituent quarks plus binding energy. As gluons have F=kx, increase in energy with separationpositive “binding” energy Bare quark masses: u = 1-5 MeV d = 3- 9 MeV s = 75-170 MeV c = 1.15 – 1.35 GeV b = 4.0–4.4 GeV t = 169-179 GeV Top quark decay so quickly it never binds into a hadron. No binding energy correction and so best determined mass value (though < 300 t quark decays observed) Other quark masses determined from measured hadron masses and binding energy model pion = “2 u/d quarks” = 135 Mev proton = “3 u/d quarks” = 940 MeV kaon = “1 s and 1 u/d” = 500 MeV Omega = “3 s quarks” = 1672 MeV High energy p-p interactions really q-q (or quark-gluon or gluon- gluon). “partons” emerge but then hadronize. Called “jets” whose energy and momentum are mostly original quark or gluon

Hadrons, Partons and Jets. Mostly skip The quarks and gluons which make up a hadron are called partons (Feynman, Field, Bjorken) Proton consists of: -3 valence quarks (about 40% of momentum) -gluons (about 50% opf the momentum) -“sea” quark-antiquark pairs The sea quarks are constantly being made/annihilated from gluons and can include heavier quarks (s,c,b) with probability mass- dependent X = p/p(total) is the momentum fraction and each type of particle has a probability to have a given X (parton distribution function) single quark produces other gluons and quarks  jet. Have similar fragmentation function

Lepton and Baryon Conservation Strong and EM conserve particle type. Weak can change but always leptonlepton or quarkquark So number of quarks (#quarks-#antiquarks) conserved. Sometimes called baryon conservation B. Number of each type (e,mu,tau) conserved L conservation Can always create particle-antiparticle pair But universe breaks B,L conservation as there is more matter than antimatter At small time after big bang #baryons = #antibaryons = #leptons = #antileptons (modulo spin/color/etc) = ~#photons (as can convert to particle-antiparticle pairs) Now baryon/photon ratio 10-10

Hadron production + Decay Allowed production channels are simply quark counting Can make/destroy quark-antiquark pairs with the total “flavor” (upness = #up-#antiup, downness, etc) staying the same All decays allowed by mass conservation occur quickly (<10-21 sec) with a few decaying by EM with lifetimes of ~10-16 sec) Those forbidden are long-lived and decay weakly and do not conserve flavor.

Hadrons and QCD. Partially skip Hadrons are made from quarks bound together by gluons EM force QuantumElectroDynamics QED strong is QuantumChromoDynamics QCD Strong force “color” is equivalent to electric charge except three different (identical) charges red-green-blue. Each type of quark has electric charge (2/3 up -1/3 down, etc) and either r g b (or antired, antiblue, antigreen) color charge Unlike charge=0 photon, gluons can have color charge. 8 such charges (like blue-antigreen) combos, 2 are colorless. Gluon exchange usually color exchange. Can have gluon-gluon interaction

quark-gluon coupling. Mostly skip why q-qbar and qqq combinations are stable 8 gluons each with color and anticolor. All “orthogonal”. 2 are colorless gluons coupling gluon-quark = +c coupling gluon-antiquark = -c r b vertex 1 +c r vertex 2 +c b vertex 2 -c

Pions Use as strong interaction example Produce in strong interactions Measure pion spin. Mirror reactions have same matrix element but different phase space/kinematics term. “easy” part of phase space is just the 2s+1 spin degeneracy term Find S=0 for pions

EM Decay of Hadrons If a photon is involved in a decay (either final state or virtual) then the decay is at least partially electromagnetic Can’t have u-ubar quark go to a single photon as have to conserve energy and momentum (and angular momentum) Rate is less than a strong decay as have coupling of 1/137 compared to strong of about 0.2. Also have 2 vertices in pi decay and so (1/137)2 EM decays always proceed if allowed but usually only small contribution if strong also allowed u g g ubar

c-cbar and b-bbar Mesons Similar to u-ubar, d-dbar, and s-sbar “excited” states similar to atoms 1S, 2S, 3S…1P, 2P…photon emitted in transitions. Mass spectrum can be modeled by QCD If mass > 2*meson mass can decay strongly But if mass <2*meson decays EM. “easiest” way is through virtual photons (suppressed for pions due to spin) c g m+ m- cbar

c-cbar and b-bbar Meson EM-Decays: SKIP Can be any particle-antiparticle pair whose pass is less than psi or upsilon: electron-positron, u-ubar, d-dbar, s-sbar rate into each channel depends on charge2(EM coupling) and mass (phase space) Some of the decays into hadrons proceed through virtual photon and some through a virtual (colorless) gluon) c g cbar

Electromagnetic production of Hadrons Same matrix element as decay. Electron-positron pair make a virtual photon which then “decays” to quark-antiquark pairs. (or mu+-mu-, etc) electron-positron pair has a given invariant mass which the virtual photon acquires. Any quark-antiquark pair lighter than this can be produced The q-qbar pair can acquire other quark pairs from the available energy to make hadrons. Any combination which conserves quark counting, energy and angular momentum OK e+ g q qbar e-

Weak Decays If no strong or EM decays are allowed, hadrons decay weakly (except for stable proton) Exactly the same as lepton decays. Exactly the same as beta decays Charge current Weak interactions proceed be exchange of W+ or W-. Couples to 2 members of weak doublets (provided enough energy) U d u d W e n

Decays of Leptons Transition leptonneutrino emits virtual W which then “decays” to all kinematically available doublet pairs For taus, mass=1800 MeV and W can decay into e+n, m+n, and u+d (s by mixing). 3 colors for quarks and so rate ~3 times higher. W e

Weak Decays of Hadrons Can have “beta” decay with same number of quarks in final state (semileptonic) or quark-antiquark combine (leptonic) or can have purely hadronic decays Rates will be different: 2-body vs 3-body phase space; different spin factors. Note s quark goes to up: mixing, more later W e

Top Quark Decay Simplest weak decay (and hadronic). M(top)>>Mw (175 GeV vs 81 GeV) and so W is real (not virtual) and there is no suppression of different final states due to phase space the t quark decays before it becomes a hadron. The outgoing b/c/s/u/d quarks are seen as jets t b W c u

Top Quark Decay Very small rate of ts or td the quark states have a color factor of 3 t b W

How to Discover the Top Quark skip make sure it wasn’t discovered before you start collecting data (CDF run 88-89 top mass too heavy) build detector with good detection of electrons, muons, jets, “missing energy”, and some B-ID (D0 Run I bm) have detector work from Day 1. D0 Run I: 3 inner detectors severe problems, muon detector some problems but good enough. U-LA cal perfect collect enough data with right kinematics so statistically can’t be background. mostly W+>2 jets Total: 17 events in data collected from 1992-1995 with estimated background of 3.8 events

The First Top Quark Event muon electron

u dbar Decay Rates: Pions Look at pion branching fractions (BF) The Beta decay is the easiest. ~Same as neutron beta decay u dbar

Pi Decay to e-nu vs mu-nu Depends on phase space and spin factors in pion rest frame pion has S=0 2 spin=1/2 combine to give S=0. Nominally can either be both right- handed or both left-handed But parity violated in weak interactions. If m=0  all S=1/2 particles are LH and all S=1/2 antiparticles are RH neutrino mass = 0  LH electron and muon mass not = 0 and so can have some “wrong” helicity. Antiparticles which are LH. But easier for muon as heavier mass L+ nu

Polarization of Spin 1/2 Particles. Mostly skip Obtain through Dirac equation and polarization operators. Polarization defined the degree of polarization then depends on velocity. The fraction in the “right” and “wrong” helicity states are: fraction “wrong” = 0 if m=0 and v=c for a given energy, electron has higher velocity than muon and so less likely to have “wrong” helicity

Pion Decay Kinematics. Skip 2 Body decay. Conserve energy and momentum can then calculate the velocity of the electron or muon look at the fraction in the “wrong” helicity to get relative spin suppression of decay to electrons

Muon Decay. Partially skip Almost 100% of the time muons decay by (have gamma few percent) Q(muon decay) > Q(pionmuon decay) but there is significant spin suppression and so muon’s lifetime ~100 longer than pions spin 1/2 muon  1/2 mostly LH (e) plus 1/2 all LH( nu) plus 1/2 all RH (antinu) 3 body phase space and some areas of Dalitz plot suppressed as S=3/2 electron tends to follow muon direction and “remember” the muon polarization. Dirac equation plus a spin rotation matrix can give the angular distribution of the electron relative to the muon direction/polarization