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KIT – University of the State of Baden-Wuerttemberg and National Research Center of the Helmholtz Association
INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL PARTICLE PHYSICS (IEKP) – PHYSICS FACULTY
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The Higgs Mechanism in the SM
Roger Wolf13. Mai 2016
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Schedule for today
Reprise: SM w/o masses
Obtaining massive fermions
Obtaining massive gauge bosons
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● Is the following statement true: “the Higgs boson couples always proportional to the mass of the particle”?
● How many and which symmetries in the SM are broken?
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The final construction of the SM
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SM without mass terms
● Compilation of the last two lectures:
Fermion kinematics
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SM without mass terms
Fermion kinematicsCharged current IA
● Compilation of the last two lectures:
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SM without mass terms
Fermion kinematicsCharged current IA Neutral current IA
● Compilation of the last two lectures:
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SM without mass terms
Fermion kinematicsCharged current IA Neutral current IA
Gauge field kinematic
● Compilation of the last two lectures:
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Extension by a new field
● SM does not allow for naive introduction of mass terms for gauge bosons nor fermions.
● But possible to create mass terms dynamically via the Higgs mechanism. Requires that the symmetry in energy ground state must be spontaneously broken.
● All fields we have introduced so far do obey all symmetries, also in their energy ground state. → Need new field with self-interaction that leads to spontaneously symmetry breaking (Goldstone) potential.
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The new field
● Add as doublet field:
Transformation behavior:
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The new field
● Add as doublet field:
Transformation behavior: Can you point to the Goldstone bosons?
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The new field
● Add as doublet field:
Transformation behavior: Can you point to the Goldstone bosons?
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Expansion close to energy ground state
● Develop in its energy ground state at :
NB: In principle this can be done anywhere in the mini-mum. For a consistent model it is done in the lower compo-nent of .
Non-zero vacuum expectation value .
Radial excitation field. → This is the Higgs boson.
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● is covariant under global transformations. Introduce covariant derivative to enforce local gauge invariance:
Enforcing local gauge invariance for
● Develop in its energy ground state at :
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Dynamic term of Lagrangian density
(covariant derivative)
● Couple to gauge fields:
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Dynamic term of Lagrangian density
(covariant derivative)
● Couple to gauge fields:
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Dynamic term of Lagrangian density
(covariant derivative)
● Couple to gauge fields:
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Dynamic term of Lagrangian density
● Resolve products of Pauli matrices ( ):
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Dynamic term of Lagrangian density
● Resolve products of Pauli matrices ( ):
● Ascending operator (of ) shifts unit vector of the down component up.
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Dynamic term of Lagrangian density
● Resolve products of Pauli matrices ( ):
● Descending operator (of ) “destroys” unit vector of the down component.
● Ascending operator (of ) shifts unit vector of the down component up.
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Dynamic term of Lagrangian density
● Resolve products of Pauli matrices ( ):
● Ascending operator (of ) shifts unit vector of the down component up.
● Operator switches sign for unit vector of down component.
● Descending operator (of ) “destroys” unit vector of the down component.
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Dynamic term of Lagrangian density
● Evaluate components of absolute value squared:
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Dynamic term of Lagrangian density
● Evaluate components of absolute value squared:
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Dynamic term of Lagrangian density
● Evaluate components of absolute value squared:
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Dynamic term of Lagrangian density
● Evaluate components of absolute value squared:
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Masses for Gauge Bosons
● By introducing as a doublet with a non-zero energy ground state we have obtained:
● Characteristic tri-linear and quartic couplings of the gauge bosons to the Higgs field.
● A solid prediction of the SM on the masses of the gauge bosons:
● Masses:
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Masses for Gauge Bosons
● By introducing as a doublet with a non-zero energy ground state we have obtained:
● Characteristic tri-linear and quartic couplings of the gauge bosons to the Higgs field.
● A solid prediction of the SM on the masses of the gauge bosons:
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Vacuum expectation value
● We can obtain a precise estimate for the vacuum expectation value, , , via its relation to .
(from Higgs mechanism, c.f. slide 25)
(from Fermi theory)
Fermi constant:
(determined from muon lifetime measurements)
● Sets the scale of electroweak symmetry breaking.
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Gauge Degrees of Freedom
● We have discussed how gauge bosons obtain mass by a gauge that absorbs the Goldstone bosons in the theory.
● As a complex doublet has four degrees of freedom.
● In the final formulation only the radial excitation of remains. The Goldstone bosons ( ) have been absorbed into the gauge fields & , which have obtained their masses in this way.
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Congratulations – you got it...
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...almost
We are still left with the problem of fermion masses.
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Coupling to fermions
● The Higgs mechanism can also help to obtain mass terms for fermions, by coupling the fermions to .
● check the and behavior of .
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Coupling to fermions
● The Higgs mechanism can also help to obtain mass terms for fermions, by coupling the fermions to .
● check the and behavior of .
● NB: can be chosen real. Residual phases can be re-defined in .
is manifest gauge invariant.
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Expansion close to energy ground state
● Develop in its energy ground state at :
(1) check Exercise 9 e).
(1)
Give the explicit coupling structure.
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Expansion close to energy ground state
● Develop in its energy ground state at :
(1) check Exercise 9 e).
(1)
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Here comes the 64 billion $ question
● In the beginning of Lecture-04 I explicitly showed to you that terms of type break gauge invariance. Now I tell you the opposite. Did I lie to you? When yes, when?
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Here comes the 64 billion $ question
Of course I would never lie to you. Single terms of this type do indeed break gauge invariance. It is the combination w/ the coupling to the Higgs boson field, which restores the gauge invariance.
● In the beginning of Lecture-04 I explicitly showed to you that terms of type break gauge invariance. Now I tell you the opposite. Did I lie to you? When yes, when?
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Full SM Lagrangian (first lepton generation)
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A word on masses...
● On our way we have witnessed three mechanisms of mass generation in the SM:
● Via gauge coupling:
● Via Yukawa coupling:
● Via Goldstone potential (→ self-coupling):
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A word on couplings...
● We summarize the couplings of fermions and bosons to the Higgs boson (according to Feynman rules):
● The couplings can be read off from the Lagrangian density (c.f. slide 37), times .
● It has to be taken into account that is an indistinguishable particle. It therefore contributes with a combinatoric factor for all amplitudes with in- and out-going fields, wherever the appears more then once in an interaction vertex.
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Concluding Remarks
● Higgs mechanism = incorporation of spontaneous symmetry breaking into a gauge field theory. Leads to the fact that gauge bosons eat up Goldstone bosons in the system and gain mass.
● → Higgs boson obtains mass from the Goldstone potential. → Gauge bosons obtain mass from their coupling to via the covariant derivative.→ Fermions obtain mass via direct Yukawa coupling to .
● Gauge bosons couple to the Higgs like , fermion fields couple to the Higgs like .
● Next week we will recapitulate how to get from a prediction in a Lagrangian density to an observable cross section (→ Feynman rules). For this I will follow the book “Feynman-Graphen und Eichtheorien für Experimentalphysiker” by Peter Schmüser.
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