05/11/2006Prof. dr hab. Elżbieta Richter-Wąs Physics Program of the experiments at L arge H adron C ollider Lecture 5
05/11/ Prof. dr hab. Elżbieta Richter-Wąs Outline of this lecture Physics programme: Higgs boson in SM and MSSM model
05/11/ Prof. dr hab. Elżbieta Richter-Wąs “Theoretical” basics FermionsSymmetries Bosons, Interactions Three families, with with leptons and and quarks 1) Poincaré Group 2) 2) Gauge Symmetries: U(1) Y U(1) Y SU(2) L SU(2) L SU(3) c SU(3) c : QED, : QED, g ’ : Weak, Z, W : Weak, g (electroweak unification) : QCD, 8 gluons : QCD, g s uLdLuLdL, u R, d R. eL, R, e R, Only known solution: the Higgs Mechanism cscs tbtb
05/11/ Prof. dr hab. Elżbieta Richter-Wąs “Theoretical” basics + Self-interaction via V( ): m f /v m 2 /v m 2 /v 2 W,Z H m 2 = v 2 /3 H (unknown) All couplings predicted Mass unknown - v 4 /24 Empty vacuum (Our vacuum) Matter interacts with the quantum fluctuations of the vacuum as well as with the vacuum itself Ad hoc coupling
05/11/ Prof. dr hab. Elżbieta Richter-Wąs “Theoretical basics”: are there bounds on m H ? Triviality bound =m H 2 /v 2 As for any other coupling constant, the particle content of the standard model determines the running of up to a scale , at which the model is no longer valid. Vacuum stability
05/11/ Prof. dr hab. Elżbieta Richter-Wąs Higgs: Introduction
05/11/ Prof. dr hab. Elżbieta Richter-Wąs Higgs: Present status of knowledge
05/11/ Prof. dr hab. Elżbieta Richter-Wąs Higgs: production at hadron colliders
05/11/ Prof. dr hab. Elżbieta Richter-Wąs Higgs boson branching fractions
05/11/ Prof. dr hab. Elżbieta Richter-Wąs How can one claim a discovery?
05/11/ Prof. dr hab. Elżbieta Richter-Wąs Maximising significance
05/11/ Prof. dr hab. Elżbieta Richter-Wąs H
05/11/ Prof. dr hab. Elżbieta Richter-Wąs Simulated H
05/11/ Prof. dr hab. Elżbieta Richter-Wąs H backgrounds
05/11/ Prof. dr hab. Elżbieta Richter-Wąs H irreducible backgrounds
05/11/ Prof. dr hab. Elżbieta Richter-Wąs H expected performance
05/11/ Prof. dr hab. Elżbieta Richter-Wąs Tile Calorimeter Forward calo EM LAr Endcap EM LAr Barrel Had. endcap H H needs mass resolution ~ 1% response uniformity ≤ 0.7% e.m. calorimeter energy m (GeV) over | | < 2.5 As example : LAr electromagnetic calorimeter
05/11/ Prof. dr hab. Elżbieta Richter-Wąs End-cap wheel in vertical position (24/6/03) Thickness of 1536 plates for EM endcap measured with ultrasounds during construction thickness of Pb absorber plates must be uniform to ~ 0.5%(~ 10 m) To keep energy response uniform to ~ % LAr Pb absorber ~ 9 m =2.2 mm e EM Endcap : Construction requirements
05/11/ Prof. dr hab. Elżbieta Richter-Wąs Test of 4( out of 32 ) barrel, 3( out of 16 ) end-cap final modules Test of 4( out of 32 ) barrel, 3( out of 16 ) end-cap final modules BC1BC2 BC3BC4 S1 pion counter muon counter FeS3,4Pb Barrel module scan with high E electrons =0 =46 =0 =15 Required uniformity in regions of size x = 0.2 x 0.4 ~ 0.5% (440 regions in the full ECAL) H8 beam line EM Barrel : test beam
05/11/ Prof. dr hab. Elżbieta Richter-Wąs x z y Geant4 simulation of test-beam set-up ~ O(1%) of ATLAS tested on CERN H8 beam line «final» electronics «final» detector modules monitoring ATLAS software to analyze data. Toward Physics : 2004 ATLAS Combined Test Beam
05/11/ Prof. dr hab. Elżbieta Richter-Wąs TRT LAr Tilecal MDT-RPC BOS Pixels & SCT TRT LAr x z y 90 millions events collected( ~ 4.5 TB) e ±, ±, ±, various energies, B=0 1.4 T beam Toward Physics : 2004 ATLAS Combined Test Beam
05/11/ Prof. dr hab. Elżbieta Richter-Wąs E cell (GeV) Linearity E/E beam constant term~0.7% E(GeV) Energy resolution(1 cell) /E(%) E beam (GeV) points well within 1% Work in progress to understand the material in the beam line 200 Uniformity (e GeV) over 22 spots GeV beam energy pb? Electronics calibration pb Uniformity~ 0.5% CTB: electron studies (preliminary results)
05/11/ Prof. dr hab. Elżbieta Richter-Wąs H ZZ (*) llll
05/11/ Prof. dr hab. Elżbieta Richter-Wąs Simulated H ZZ (*) llll
05/11/ Prof. dr hab. Elżbieta Richter-Wąs Simulated H ZZ (*) llll
05/11/ Prof. dr hab. Elżbieta Richter-Wąs H ZZ (*) llll: control of reducible background
05/11/ Prof. dr hab. Elżbieta Richter-Wąs H ZZ (*) llll: analysis
05/11/ Prof. dr hab. Elżbieta Richter-Wąs Vector boson fusion
05/11/ Prof. dr hab. Elżbieta Richter-Wąs Forward jet tagging
05/11/ Prof. dr hab. Elżbieta Richter-Wąs Example: qqH qqWW* qql l
05/11/ Prof. dr hab. Elżbieta Richter-Wąs Overall SM Higgs discovery potential
05/11/ Prof. dr hab. Elżbieta Richter-Wąs Overall SM Higgs discovery potential
05/11/ Prof. dr hab. Elżbieta Richter-Wąs Determination of Higgs boson parameters
05/11/ Prof. dr hab. Elżbieta Richter-Wąs Higgs mass determination
05/11/ Prof. dr hab. Elżbieta Richter-Wąs Higgs width determination
05/11/ Prof. dr hab. Elżbieta Richter-Wąs Determination of couplings
05/11/ Prof. dr hab. Elżbieta Richter-Wąs Determination of couplings
05/11/ Prof. dr hab. Elżbieta Richter-Wąs Measurement of partial widths ratios
05/11/ Prof. dr hab. Elżbieta Richter-Wąs Higgs pair production and self couplings
05/11/ Prof. dr hab. Elżbieta Richter-Wąs MSSM Higgs sector
05/11/ Prof. dr hab. Elżbieta Richter-Wąs Production cross-section
05/11/ Prof. dr hab. Elżbieta Richter-Wąs Higgs decays
05/11/ Prof. dr hab. Elżbieta Richter-Wąs h , bb
05/11/ Prof. dr hab. Elżbieta Richter-Wąs A/H
05/11/ Prof. dr hab. Elżbieta Richter-Wąs A/H : mass reconstruction
05/11/ Prof. dr hab. Elżbieta Richter-Wąs A/H : lepton-hadron analysis
05/11/ Prof. dr hab. Elżbieta Richter-Wąs A/H
05/11/ Prof. dr hab. Elżbieta Richter-Wąs Charged Higgs
05/11/ Prof. dr hab. Elżbieta Richter-Wąs Summary 30fb -1
05/11/ Prof. dr hab. Elżbieta Richter-Wąs LHC discovery potential for SUSY Higgs bosons
05/11/ Prof. dr hab. Elżbieta Richter-Wąs What can we do in one year?
05/11/ Prof. dr hab. Elżbieta Richter-Wąs Conclusions