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More on the Standard Model
• Particles from quarks• Particle interactions• Particle decays• More conservation laws• Quark confinement• Spin
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The fundamental particles
u c t +2/3 six quarks
d s b -1/3
e µ 0 six leptons
e µ -1
These particles interact through the exchange of a force carrier.
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Particles from Quarks
The quarks combine in two ways to form the particles we see in the lab:
Quark-antiquark pairs from mesons:
u and anti-d = +
u and anti-s = K+
and so on, making hundreds of particles.
Quiz: How would I make a neutral K particle?
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Particles from Quarks
Three quarks combine to form a baryon such as the proton and neutron
uud = proton
udd = neutron
uds = lambda ()
and so on, making hundreds of baryons
Quiz: What is the charge of the lambda?
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Force carriers
Particles interact through the exchange of force carriers.
There are four force carriers:
Photon () for EM interaction
Gluon (g) for the strong interaction
W+, W- and Z0 for the weak interaction
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Electromagnetic interaction example
The photon is the force carrier, and it couples to electric charge.
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Weak Interaction examples
Quarks can change from one type to another (flavor changing), but ONLY through the exchange of a W.
The Ws and Zs are the carriers of the weak force, and they couple to all known particles
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Strong interaction example
The leptons do NOT see the strong interaction.
Only the quarks interact strongly.
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Heavier particles decay into ligher particles
But subject to the rules:
conservation of energy, momentum and angular momentum
conservation of electric charge
conservation of the number of baryons and leptons
So for example
n p e e
µ µ
µ e e µ
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Particles decay as far as possible
Particles keep on decaying until there is some conservation rule that forbids them from decaying further.
The electron is the lightest charged particle, so it is stable.
But wait…why doesn’t a proton decay into a positron and say a 0 ?
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Baryon number/lepton number
In particle physics we have two additional conservation laws that all decays ever observed obey.
The total number of baryons is constant.
The total number of leptons is constant.
Anti-particles carry opposite baryon/lepton number.
n p e e (bar = antiparticle)_
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But what about the matter-antimatter asymmetry of the universe?
If the number of baryons is a constant in the universe,and we make matter and antimatter in pairs…
How did we arrive at a matter-dominated universe?
We don’t know the answer completely, but we do know it is related to the violation of the fundamental symmetries of parity (mirror reflection) and charge conjugation (matterantimatter)
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Why no free quarks?
There are no free quarks—why?
People have looked for decades for free quarks, butnone have been observed.
We can pull an electron off an atom, so why can’twe pull a quark out of a proton?
The answer has to do with the nature of the force Holding them together, the so-called color force.
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Why no free quarks?
The potential energy two electric charges:
U=-kqQ/r
The potential energy between two color charges is Coulomb-like but has an extra term:
U=-kqQ/r+Kr
The PE increases with distance!
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Quark- quark potential energy
The quark potential looks like the Coulomb potential close up, but when the separation is large, the linear term dominates
In these units 1=the proton radius.
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Quark -quark potential energy
As r gets large, the PE increases without bound and the quark cannot escape!!
We call this
CONFINEMENT!
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Electric field between electric charges
Electric Dipole
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Color field between color charges
Color Dipole
When the distance beteen the quarks gets large, a great deal of PE is stored in the color field.
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Confinement!
When two quarks separate, at some point there is enough energy in the field to create a quark-antiquark pair. Then the color field lines snap, and two mesons are created!
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Jet Production
The color charge holding the quarks together is so strong, you can never pull a free quark out of a proton.
The harder you try to pull a quark out of a proton, the more mesons you get!
The stream of mesons that marks the path of a quark we call a jet.
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We can see quarks
The jet of particles produced by the quark allows us to get some measure of its energy and momentum.
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Spin
All the fundamental particles have one other property-- intrinsic angular momentum. They all have ½ unit of angular momentum, where the unit is h/2.
Particles with ½ integral spin are called fermions.
Particles with integral spin are called bosons.
Combining two spin ½ fermions gives a boson
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Adding spins
A state of two electrons will have spin either 1 or 0, both of which are bosons.
Spins add, total spin=1 Spins cancel, spin=0
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Fermions and the exclusion principle
Only one fermion can be an any state, which explains most of chemistry…the electrons fill up the energy levels with only one per state. This is the Pauli exclusion principle.
But can’t I put two electrons per state? Yes, but their spins are in different directions, so they are not really in the same state.
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Supersymmetry
Supersymmetry is an unproven theory that postulates a boson for every fermion and a fermion for every boson!
It solves some problems deep in the mathematics of the Standard Model.
But…ugh…too many fundamental particles. And where are they anyway? (Must be heavy or we would have seen them by now.)
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Supersymmetry and dark matter
Supersymmetric particles are prime candidates to be the dark matter of galactic halos.
But there is as yet no evidence for supersymmetric particles, although we are looking very hard!
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Supersymmetry?
Supersymmetry is an offer nature can’t refuse.
D.V. Nanopolus, theorist
There ain’t no Supersymmetry.
Leo Bellantoni, Fermilab physicist
Experiment is the sole judge of scientific truth.
Richard Feynman
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Supersymmetric names
The supersymmetric partner of the top quark is called stop.
The supersymmetric partners of any quark is a squark.
The supersymmetric partner of the photon is the photino.
The supersymmetric partner of the W is the …
(I am not making this up..)
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