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Status of LHC and the Higgs Search
Andrei Gritsan
Johns Hopkins University
August, 2011
JHU Quarknet Meeting
Finding the Higgs
• Higgs mechanism is responsible for
generating mass of fundamental particles
(discuss later how)
• Is it responsible for our mass?
(discuss later why)
• Why have not we seen the Higgs ?
(A) it is too heavy for past experiments
(B) it does not exist
• If Higgs is so important:
– how do we find the Higgs ?
– or prove that it does not exist...Andrei Gritsan, JHU August, 2011
Produce the Higgs: Reaching Highest Energy
• mc2 = E
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Large Hadron Collider: Running at Full Speed
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CMS Experiment
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Detecting Particles at CMS
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Production of the Higgs
• Higgs interaction strength ∝ mass of particles
of color-neutral& charge-neutral Higgs
• Does not interact with
massless gluons directly
gg→ X
only through a ”loop”
• Very unlikely to interact with
light quarks in proton
qq̄ → X
negligible
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Decay of the Higgs
• Consider decay back to Standard Model particles
• Decay to fermions
X → l+l−, qq̄
again very unlikely (light)
• Decay to gauge bosons
X → γγ, W+W−, ZZ, gg
γγ trough a loop
two likely channels WW , ZZ
but Higgs mass >∼ 2mW
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Next Steps
• If there is a Higgs
– likely to appear as a ”resonance” on top of ”background”
– ”background” = random combination of particles
ZZ mass [GeV]200 250 300 350
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Cartoon of an Experiment
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Kinematics of X → ZZ and WW
• We can describe kinematics of decay and distinguish from others
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Higgs at LHC
• By the end of June 2011 collected ∼1 fb−1 of data
∼ 100 trillion proton-proton collisions
for comparison, in 2010 we had ∼0.04 fb−1
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Higgs at LHC: Candidate Events H → ZZ
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Higgs at LHC: Candidate Events H → ZZ
Andrei Gritsan, JHU August, 2011
Higgs at LHC: Candidate Events H → ZZ
Andrei Gritsan, JHU August, 2011
Higgs at LHC: Candidate Events H → ZZ
Andrei Gritsan, JHU August, 2011
Higgs at LHC: Candidate Events H → ZZ
Andrei Gritsan, JHU August, 2011
Higgs at LHC: Candidate Events H → ZZ
Andrei Gritsan, JHU August, 2011
Higgs at LHC: Candidate Events H → ZZ
Andrei Gritsan, JHU August, 2011
Higgs at LHC: Candidate Events H → ZZ
Andrei Gritsan, JHU August, 2011
Higgs at LHC: H → ZZ → 4l
• Perform statistical analysis of observed events
– data are consistent with background only
– can try to reject Higgs at 95% confidence
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Higgs at LHC: H → ZZ → 2l2q
• Perform statistical analysis of observed events
– data are consistent with background only
– can try to reject Higgs at 95% confidence
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Higgs at LHC: Combine All Channels
• Combine all Higgs channels
– Higgs→ γγ, ττ,WW,ZZ, with ZZ → 4l, 2l2q, 2l2ν
– reject Higgs at 95% confidence in large range of masses
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Closing on the Higgs
• We are excluding large range of masses now
• Preparing new results by mid-August, LHC performs well
• Even better by the end of 2011, and in 2012
• We will either FIND or REJECT the SM Higgs hypothesis
– both options are exciting
– both will be only the first step to explain puzzles
(1) if Higgs found, still new discoveries expected to explain
incosistencies of the model
(2) if Higgs not found, even more expected to explain the
mechanism of mass
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What is the Higgs Particle?
• This answer is probably not very satisfying to see first:
Higgs appears from introduction of this Lagrangian
in the quantum field theory of particles
L =1
2(∂µφ)2 −
1
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What is Higgs?
• There are several phenomena:
– Peter Higgs
– Higgs mechanism
– Higgs field
– Higgs particle (still elusive particle)
• People sometimes confuse these phenomena
– especially the last two
• So far there is hard evidence only for the first:
– 1964 article by Peter Higgs in Physics Review Letters
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Why is it Higgs Mechanism ?
• In fact, there are several names of the Higgs mechanism:
– Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism
– Higgs-Brout-Englert-Guralnik-Hagen-Kibble mechanism
– Anderson-Higgs mechanism
– Higgs mechanism is just simpler
– all for authors of independent papers on the topic
• Partly due to ironic history with the paper by Higgs:
– rejected from European Physics Letters
“of no obvious relevance to physics”
– added a paragraph predicting a new particle
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Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking• Spontaneous symmetry breaking → Higgs mechanism
• 3 quark families → matter over antimatter asymmetry
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Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking
• Symmetry spontaneously broken: pick φ = vat minimum of potential energy of Higgs field (µ2 < 0)
V (φ1, φ2, φ3, φ4) =1
2µ2
[
φ21 + φ2
2 + φ23 + φ2
4
]
+1
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• Higgs particle described by one field component
η = φ1 − v
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What about other Higgs field components?
• The other field components φ2, φ3, φ4 “couple”
to Weak Interaction bosons Z, W − , W +
and give them mass
• Photon γ is the same Weak Interaction boson
but remains massless (does not couple to Higgs field)
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All Elementary Particles get Mass from Higgs Field
• Fermions S = h̄2
(matter)
leptons
quarks
(anti-matter)
• Bosons S = h̄ (force carries):
← massless
(weak force bosons mass)
EM strong
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What is Higgs?• Higgs mechanism
– existence of Higgs field
– spontaneous symmetry breaking and “gauge” invariance
(interaction with Z,W±)
– gives mass to all elementary particles
– predicts existence of Higgs particle
• Everything works perfectly, except:
– we have not observed the Higgs particle yet
• Why: – Higgs particle is too heavy to produce (if it exists)
(more than 100× proton mass)
– hope to produce or exclude at Large Hadron Collider
– still possible that Higgs mechanism is not correct
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Do we have mass due to Higgs mechanism?
• Yes and no
– we are not elementary particles...
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What does give us mass? Molecules? Atoms?
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What does make mass?
• What gives us mass?
Molecules Atoms Nucleus
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“Periodic Table” of Baryons: Proton, Neutron,...
• Three quarks make up a Baryon:
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What Gives Mass to Baryons: Proton, Neutron,...
• Remember Einstein’s formula
E = mc2
m(u or d) < 1% m(proton)
Mostly energy of gluons and quarks inside gives proton mass
not really the Higgs mechanism
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But Higgs Mechanism is Very Important
• Makes Weak Interactions weak: mass of Z,W−,W+
similarly first step in sun fusion
p + p→ d + e+ + νe
• Makes certain hierarchy of masses
essential for our existence
Andrei Gritsan, JHU August, 2011
Hypothetical Scenario: Different Quark Mass
• Again, normally proton is stable and neutron decays:
m(n) > m(p) + m(e) + m(νe)
• Why is m(n) > m(p)
– m(p) = 938 MeV, m(n) – m(p) = 1.3 MeV
– tiny difference makes a big difference!
– naively expect m(p) > m(n) if u and d were the same
– but m(d) > m(u)
• New scenario:
– what if m(d) < m(u)
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Hypothetical Scenario: Different Quark Mass
• If m(d) < m(u), proton decays:
• Consequence: no Hydrogen, no H20, no life
– still have He4, rapid nn fusion, instead of slower pp
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We are likely to find more than just Higgs
• New (super)symmetry:
Q|fermion〉=|boson〉
Q|boson〉=|fermion〉
• Solve:
(1) natural light
H iggs
(2) dark matter
lightest χ̃01
(3) large matter/antimatter
• Just around the corner in mass...Andrei Gritsan, JHU August, 2011
BACKUP SLIDES
(1) Another Scenario: Muonic World
• We would get a muonic atom:
• Size changes:
radius r = 4πǫ0h̄2
mµe2 , 200 smaller !
Hydrogen radius
r = 4πǫ0h̄2
mee2 = 5× 10−11 mAndrei Gritsan, JHU August, 2011
(1) Scenario: Muonic World
• However muonic hydrogen would decay:
• Not very interesting universe
– filled with neutral “balls” of neutrons and neutrinosAndrei Gritsan, JHU August, 2011
(1) Scenario: Muonic World
• Normally neutron is not stable (life τ ∼ 886 seconds)
m(n) > m(p) + m(e) + m(νe)
• But stable in the muonic world:
m(n) < m(p) + m(µ) + m(νµ)Andrei Gritsan, JHU August, 2011
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Look Beyond the Standard Model
• Why does matter dominate (Sakharov):
– CP -asymmetry
– baryon non-conservation
– non-equilibrium
• Mysterious H iggs field
– gives mass to particles
• Need something beyond the SM
– large CP -asymmetry
– dark matter
– light H iggs 0
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mH [GeV]∆χ
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Excluded
∆αhad =∆α(5)
0.02758±0.00035
0.02749±0.00012
incl. low Q2 data
Theory uncertainty
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