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1 Introduction to Elementary Particle Physics. Note 01 Page 1 of 8 Natural Units There are 4 primary SI units: three kinematical (meter, second, kilogram) and one electrical (Ampere 1 ) It is common in the realm of the elementary particle physics to redefine units so that speed of light and Plank s constant become equal to one: c=1 and =1. This imposes two constraints on the three kinematical units and, therefore, leaves us a free choice for one of the three kinematical units. The units of electrical charge, also, can be and are redefined (see below). Such system of units is often referred to as Natural Units (natural for the elementary particle physics, that is). The kinematical unit of the choice is energy, E, and it is usually measured in ev (kev,, GeV, TeV). Once we fixed c=1 and =1, all other kinematical units can now be expressed in terms of units of energy. E.g., one can easily see: E 2 =m 2 c 4 +p 2 c 2 : Et px i with c=1, units of mass and momentum are E Ψ = Ce : with =1, units of time and length are 1/E L z n with =1, angular momentum is dimensionless In SI system, units of current and charge can be effectively defined by choosing the value of ε 0 in the Coulomb s Law: F qq 1 = r 2 4πε, where ε 0= C 2 m -3 kg -1 c 2. 0 In the Natural Units, the units of charge are defined by choosing ε 0 =1. This automatically sets μ 0 =1, since c 2 =1/(ε 0 μ 0 ). Since the units of force and distance in Natural Units are E 2 and 1/E, the electric charge turns out to be dimensionless in these units. The value of the fine structure constant, being dimensionless, is the same in all units. In SI units it has 2 the following form: e 1 α = =, where e is the elementary charge e= C. In Natural 4πε c Units, the fine structure constant becomes α = e 2 4π = 1. This clearly shows that an electric charge e 137 has no dimensions in the Natural Units and now equals to Table. Units for major physical quantities in SI and Natural Units with conversion factors. Dimensions Quantity SI Natural Conversions Units Units mass kg E 1 GeV = kg length m 1/E 1 GeV -1 = m time s 1/E 1 GeV -1 = s energy kg m 2 /s 2 E 1 GeV = Joules momentum kg m/s E 1 GeV = kg m/s velocity m/s none 1 = m/s (c) angular momentum kg m 2 /s none 1 = J s (ħ) cross-section m 2 1/E 2 1 GeV -2 = mb = m 2 force kg m/s 2 E 2 1 GeV 2 = Newton charge C=A s none 1 = Coulomb; e=0.303= C 1 Unit of charge, Coulomb, is Ampere second.
2 Introduction to Elementary Particle Physics. Note 01 Page 2 of 8 Scales in Natural and SI units to remember mass of a proton/neutron ~ 1 GeV mass of an electron ~ 0.5 proton/neutron radius ~ 1 fm = m = 1 fermi ~ 1/(200 ) time for light to cross a proton ~ s highest energy collider (Tevatron) ~ 2 TeV center-of-mass energy distance scale probed at Tevatron ~ 1/(2 TeV) ~ m
3 Introduction to Elementary Particle Physics. Note 01 Page 3 of 8 Periodic Table of Particles/Forces in the Standard Model f 1 f 3 boson f 2 f 4 Fermions (matter) ν e e - ν μ ν τ μ - τ - u c t d s b Color charge Electric charge Z 0 coupling W ± coupling 0 0 yes yes Higgs coupling Spin yes for m ν 0 ½ <2 ev 0-1 yes yes yes ½ r, g, b +2/3 yes yes yes ½ r, g, b -1/3 yes yes yes ½ ±1.5 7±2 Masses () < ±0.2 GeV 120±40 < GeV 174±5 GeV 4.3±0.3 GeV Bosons (forces) g γ (8 gluons) (photon) Z 0 boson W ± boson Higgs boson (?) Color Charge 8 coloranticolor combinations Electric Charge ±1 0 Spin Mass GeV 80 GeV >114 GeV Relative strength * 1 ~10-2 ~10-7 ~10-7 massdependent Side Note: Boson Self-Coupling Vertices allowed in SM: gluons: ggg; gggg γ, Z, W: γww, ZWW; γγww, γzww, ZZWW H, Z, W: HZZ, HWW, HHH; HHHH, ZZHH, WWHH * For quarks at about 1 GeV/c momentum transfers
4 Introduction to Elementary Particle Physics. Note 01 Page 4 of 8 Fermions: The top set of particles gives 3 (2+2 3)=24 fermions with spin=½. They are conventionally called matter. Three columns represent 3 nearly identical generations; the masses being the only difference between them. This three-generation structure allows for not yet understood phenomena of mixing. Each generation consists of: - two leptons (charged lepton and an associated neutrino) and - three pairs of quarks (colored blocks representing quarks with three different color charges) - all fermions have masses All particles have their own names: - electron neutrino and electron, up- and down-quarks; - muon neutrino and muon, charm- and strange-quarks; - tau neutrino and tau-lepton, top- and bottom-quarks (bottom is also known as beauty); Bosons: There are 5 kinds of bosons. They are mediators of forces: - 8 gluons (spin=1) of different color-anticolor charges responsible for the strong force (coupled to color charge, i.e. only quarks participate in interaction via exchange of gluons) - 1 photon (spin=1) responsible for electromagnetic force (coupled to electric charge, i.e. only charged particles participate in interaction via exchange of photons) - 1 Z- and 2 W-bosons (spin=1) responsible for weak force (coupled to weak hypercharge and weak isospin; all fermions participate in interaction via exchange of Z and W) NOTE: gluons and photons are massless, Z and W are massive particles - Higgs (spin=1) the only not yet discovered force/particle, invented to allow for masses in the weak sector of SM (its coupling to particles is related to their masses: the larger the mass, the larger the force); Gravity is ignored (it is VERY weak and there is NOT a coherent quantum theory of gravity). Graviton should have zero mass and spin=2. Its relative strength in the last column should be of the order of In general, fermions particles with half-integral spin: ½, 3/2,. Bosons particles with integral spin: 0, 1, 2, In quantum mechanics, they obey different statistics of indistinguishable particles: same-kind fermions may exist only in anti-symmetric states, bosons otherwise. We will discuss it later. Quarks can exist only in colorless combinations (hadrons): 3 quarks of blue, green, red color: uud (proton), udd (neutron) quark-antiquark pairs in color-anticolor combinations (e.g., red-antired): ud (pion) Experimentally most important hadrons (long-lived hadrons): proton uud neutron udd pion ud kaon sd Anti-particles: For each particle in the table, there is anti-particle with the same mass/spin and opposite quantum numbers like charge (electric, color, etc.), magnetic moment, etc. For photon and Z, particle=antiparticle. Same can be true for neutrinos, but we do not yet know this W-boson is the only force via which particles can transform: e.g., n p e ν ( or at the more fundamental level: d u e ν )
5 Introduction to Elementary Particle Physics. Note 01 Page 5 of 8 Three Generations of Fermions: Pattern of Masses 1.0E E E E+03 uct quarks dsb quarks charged leptons neutrino mass limits 1.0E+02 Mass, 1.0E E E E E E E-05 from neutrino oscillations combined w ith direct limit on electron neutrino mass 1.0E E generation number
6 Introduction to Elementary Particle Physics. Note 01 Page 6 of 8 Questions within Standard Model: Origin of masses: Is there a Higgs boson, after all? (Note that alternatives are possible ) Neutrinos: Are neutrinos Majorana- or Dirac-kind particles? Also, what are neutrino masses, mixing angles and a CP-violating phase? Quark-Gluon Plasma: What are the properties of this state of matter? This is sort of condensed matter physics for quarks and gluons Perturbative theory limitations: How to deal with non-perturbative phenomena? This is more a technical ( calculus ) question rather than physics
7 Introduction to Elementary Particle Physics. Note 01 Page 7 of 8 What Standard Model does not explain: Hierarchy problem: Even if we find the Higgs boson in its simplest form, the Standard Model is likely to require new physics to avoid very bad divergences and/or fine tuning of parameters. Is it Supersymmetry, Extra Dimensions? Why does the Higgs boson, if discovered, couple so differently to various particles? Higgs filed vacuum energy density is huge problems for cosmology or extreme-fine tuning? Why are neutrinos so light? Why are there three generations of fermions? There appears to be a pattern in their masses What connects leptons to quarks? What stands behind mixing of generations? There appears to be a pattern in the quark mixing matrix... Why is there matter-antimatter asymmetry in the universe? Baryon number conservation needs to be violated and we would need more CP-violating processes Is there new physics at the GUT scale? Assuming existence of SUSY particles at ~1 TeV scale, all three coupling constants of the electromagnetic, weak and strong forces seem to converge to one value at GeV scale (well below Plank scale where we must incorporate quantum gravity). Is it a coincidence? Are their more gauge symmetries and corresponding forces? What is non-baryonic dark matter? What is dark energy? Quantum field theory of gravity is missing Why is the gravity so weak?
8 Introduction to Elementary Particle Physics. Note 01 Page 8 of 8 20 th Century Elementary Particle Physics Timeline Theoretical Breakthroughs Discoveries of Building Blocks 1900 Black body radiation spectrum (Planck) Discovery of electron (Thompson) 1905 Light quanta (Einstein) 1905 Theory of special relativity (Einstein) 1913 Bohr s model of atom, momentum quantum (Bohr) 1911 Discovery of nucleus (Rutherford) 1919 Discovery of proton (Rutherford) 1923 Discovery of photon (Compton) 1925 Hypothesis of no two fermions in identical states (Pauli) Quantum Mechanics (Heisenberg, Schrodinger) 1928 Electron relativistic QM equation; antimatter (Dirac) 1930 Neutrino hypothesis (Pauli) 1932 Discovery of neutron (Chadwick) 1934 Weak Force (Fermi) 1933 Discovery of antimatter, positron (Anderson) 1935 Nuclear Force and Yukawa particles (Yukawa) 1937 Discovery of muon (Anderson, Neddermeyer) 1948 Quantum ElectroDynamics (Feynman; Schwinger; Tomonaga) 1946 Discovery of charged pion (Perkins) 1947 Discovery of strange particles (Butler, Rochester) 1956 Discovery of electron neutrino (Reines, Cowan) 1964 Three quarks (Gell-Mann, Zweig) 1965 Color (Greenberg) 1968 ElectroWeak Unification (Weinberg, Salam, Glashow) 1970 Charm quarks (Glashow, Iliopoulos, Maiani) 1973 Quantum ChromoDynamics (Gross, Fritzsch, Gell-Mann, Politzer, Weinberg, Wilczek) 1962 Discovery of muon neutrino (Lederman, Schwartz, Steinberger) 1974 Discovery of charm quark (Ting, Richter) 1975 Discovery of τ-lepton (Mark I, Perl) 1977 Discovery of bottom quark (Lederman) Late 1970s Observation quark and gluon jets (TASSO, JADE) 1983 Discovery of W ±, Z 0 (UA1, UA2, Rubbia) Not shown on the time line, but still very important: Experiment: - Discovery of electron spin (1925) - Discovery of Δ-resonance (1952) - Discovery of P-violation (1957) - Discovery of CP-violation (1964) - Counting of light neutrino species (1989) - Discovery of neutrino oscillations (2000±2) Theory: - General Relativistic Theory (1915) - Introduction of SUSY, extra-dimensions, strings (early 1970s) 1995 Discovery of top quark (CDF, D0) 2000 Discovery of tau-neutrino (DONUT, Lundberg)???? Discovery of Higgs, SUSY, compositness, leptoquarks. extra dimensions, mini black holes,.
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