Alpha decay
Beta decay
Henri Bequerel
Pierre and Marie Curie
electron n
W. Pauli -NEUTRINO- “ I invented a new Particle, which Will never be Seen! “
electron
Dear Radioactive Ladies and Gentlemen !
1956: discovery of the neutrino Savannah river reactor
(Fred Reines – Clyde Cowan)
n-capture by cadmium
Fermi interaction f Enrico Fermi
direct interaction ~ four fermions p n electron antineutrino beta decay
Parity conserved in strong and electromagnetic interactions
C. N. Yang T. D. Lee
Chien-Shiung Wu Experiment Columbia University
lefthanded fermion S= - 1/2 righthanded fermion S = + 1/2
weak interactions current-current interaction weak currents => lefthanded Feynman / Gell-Mann Marshak / Sudarshan
R. Marshak G. Sudarshan
maximal breaking of parity
weak bosons high mass mass generation ?
electro-magnetism
electroweak gauge theory gauge group SU(2) x U(1) doublet singlet
doublet singlet => neutrinos massless
Z => neutral current
Gargamelle bubble chamber
1975 => three different neutrinos
Standard - Theory
III II I
??? weak bosons ???
SPS proton-antiproton collider
1984 Discovery of weak bosons
The first Z-boson, decaying into an electron and a positron
Carlo Rubbia
LEP
Masses of weak bosons ??????????
rotation symmetry
symmetry of rotation broken (spontaneous symmetry breaking)
spontaneous symmetry breaking field theory
Peter Higgs Erwin Schrödinger
Kibble Guralnik Hagen Englert Brout
Discovery of „Higgs“-particle ? ? ?
L3 I ATLAS CMS LHCb Alice
H
M(H) = 125,36 ±0,37(stat.) ±0,18 (syst.) GeV
one W or Z must be virtual, since M(H) < 2 M(W,Z)
flavor mixing quarks
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( u d s )( u u d ) s u
Nicola Cabibbo 1963
strangeness changing term not observed in the experiments (decay of K-mesons) !!!
GIM – mechanism ( Glashow, Iliopoulos, Maiani ) c: charmed quark 1970
III II I
SU(2,L) x U(1) SU(2,L) x sU(2,R) x U(1)
III II I
6 leptons – 6 quarks 3 doublets
flavormixing
weak transitions
observed CKM – matrix (no phasees)
New parametrization:
flavor mixing Leptons
6 leptons
massive neutrinos
flavormixing
Neutrino oscillations
observation
neutrino masses ( eV )
eV 0.05 eV
??????????????? neutrino masses very small ???????????????
Neutrinoless Double Beta decay
Majorana neutrino mass: < 0.23 eV
Beyond Standard Theory ??????????
? Grand Unification ? ? Gravity ? ? Supersymmetry ? ? String Theory ? ?…………………?