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The Standard Model of Electroweak Physics Christopher T. Hill Head of Theoretical Physics Fermilab
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Lecture II: Structure of the Electroweak Theory
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Summary of Five Easy Pieces: I. Local Gauge Symmetry II. Can a gauge field have a mass? Yes! Landau-Ginzburg Superconductor
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Summary of Five Easy Pieces: III. Chiral Symmetry of massless fermions IV. Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking
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Summary of Five Easy Pieces: III. Chiral Symmetry of massless fermions IV. Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking of chiral symmetry:
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Nambu-Goldstone Boson “Higgs” Boson
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Summary of Five Easy Pieces: IV. Gauged Spontaneously Broken Chiral Symmetry
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Yang-Mills Local Gauge Invariance on a Wallet Card
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Standard Electroweak Model Weak Force: u d e nu W Based upon a nonabelian gauge symmetry: Yang-Mills Field Theory Higgs Field? SU(2)xU(1) is “Spontaneously broken Symmetry” SU(2) x U(1)
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Symmetry Groups A group G is a collection of elements { r j } G has a “multiplication” operation: r j x r k = r k where r k is in G There is a unique identity in G, 1, such that 1 x r k = r k x 1 = r k Each element r k has a unique inverse r k -1 such that r k -1 x r k = r k x r k -1 = 1 Group multiplication is associative
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Continuous Symmetry Groups Cartan Classification Spheres in N dimensions: O(2), O(3),..., SO(N) Complex Spheres in N dimensions: U(1), SU(2),..., SU(N) N dimensional phase space Sp(2N) Exceptional Groups: G 2, F 4, E 6, E 7, E 8 Continuous rotations are exponentiated angles x generators. Generators form a Lie Algebra, e.g. SU(N) has N 2 -1 generators. Generators are in 1:1 correspondence with the gauge fields in a Yang-Mills threory.
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Electroweak Theory: SU(2) X U(1) Yang-Mills Gauge Theory
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SU(2) Lie Algebra
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Choose representations of the charges:
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Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking
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Standard Model Symmetry Breaking alignment of Higgs VEV simply specifies the charge basis (coordinate system)
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Standard Model Symmetry Breaking annihilates corresponds to unbroken electric charge operator
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Higgs Kinetic term determines Gauge Mass Eigenstates
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Gauge Boson Mass Eigenstates
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Introduce the Fermions e.g., Top and Bottom
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W Apply to muon decay
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Neutrino masses
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Lightning Review of Radiative Corrections to Standard Model
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W,Z
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114 GeV < m H < 260 GeV Searching for the Higgs (Vacuum Electroweak Superconductivity)
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What is the Higgs Boson?
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(BCS Theory of a Higgs)
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introduce auxiliary field: “factorized interaction”
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Renormalize
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Low Energy Effective Lagrangian: renormalization group:
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Can be applied to Higgs = top anti-top boundstate
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Application: Top Seesaw Model
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The mysterious role of Scale Symmetry We live in 1+3 dimensions The big cosmological constant conundrum The Higgs Boson mass scale QCD solves its own problem of hierarchy New Strong Dynamics? Origin of Mass in QCD
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Gell-Mann and Low: Gross, Politzer and Wilczek:
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A Puzzle: Murray Gell-Mann lecture ca 1975 !??? QCD is scale invariant!!!???
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Resolution: The Scale Anomaly Origin of Mass in QCD = Quantum Mechanics
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A heretical Conjecture :
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On naturalness in the standard model. William A. Bardeen (Fermilab). FERMILAB-CONF-95-391-T, Aug 1995. 5pp. William A. BardeenFermilab Conjecture on the physical implications of the scale anomaly. Christopher T. Hill (Fermilab). hep-th/0510177 Christopher T. HillFermilab We live in D=4! Cosmological constant is zero in classical limit QCD scale is generated in this way; Hierarchy is naturally generated Testable in the Weak Interactions? Weyl Gravity in D=4 is QCD-like: Is the Higgs technically natural? “Predictions” of the Conjecture:
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Symmetry Principles Define Modern Physics
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Symmetry BeautyPhysics
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