searches for new physics
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Searches for New Physics. Motivations Examples Searches so far Setting scene for LHC. 1/12. Status of the Standard Model. Perfect agreement with all confirmed accelerator data Consistency with precision electroweak data (LEP et al ) only if there is a Higgs boson - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Searches for New Physics
• Motivations
• Examples
• Searches so far
• Setting scene for LHC
1/12
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Status of the Standard Model
• Perfect agreement with all confirmed accelerator data
• Consistency with precision electroweak data (LEP et al) only if there is a Higgs boson
• Agreement seems to require a relatively light Higgs boson weighing < ~ 200 GeV
• Raises many unanswered questions:
mass? flavour? unification?
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New Electroweak Physics?
Limit new contributions
to vacuum polarizationdue, e.g., to new fermions
Check energy-dependence
of radiative corrections
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Searches for New Gauge Bosons
Limits on W’, Z’ from Tevatron
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Accelerator Evidence for New Physics?
• The anomalous (?) anomalous magnetic moment of the muon
• Disagrees with the SM @ 3.3 level if use e+e- annihilation data
• But no discrepancy
if use decay data
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Open Questions beyond the Standard Model
• What is the origin of particle masses?due to a Higgs boson? + other physics?solution at energy < 1 TeV (1000 GeV)
• Why so many types of matter particles?matter-antimatter difference?
• Unification of the fundamental forces?at very high energy ~ 1016 GeV?probe directly via baryon decay, neutrino physics, indirectly via masses, couplings
• Quantum theory of gravity?(super)string theory: extra space-time dimensions?
LHC
LHC
LHC
LHC
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At what Energy is the New Physics?
A lot accessibledirectly to the LHC
Some accessible only indirectly:Astrophysics and cosmology?
Dark matter
Origin of mass
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Some particles have mass, some do not
+1 0 -1
W+ Z 0 W -
Mass 80.419 91.188 80.419
0photon
Mass 0
Where do the masses come from?
Newton:Weight proportional to Mass
Einstein:Energy related to Mass
Neither explained origin of Mass
Are masses due to Higgs boson? (yet another particle)
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Higgs Searches
• What to look for in the SM:
• No luck at LEP:
• Nor at the Tevatron …
• … so far!
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Progress in the Higgs Search @ Tevatron
• Many measurements of other SM processes
• Factor > 10 before SM Higgs sensitivity
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Theorists getting Cold Feet
• Composite Higgs model?fermion masses? precision electroweak data?
• Interpretation of EW data?consistency of measurements? Discard some?
• Higgs + higher-dimensional operators?corridors to higher Higgs masses?
• Little Higgs models?extra `Top’, gauge bosons, `Higgses’
• Higgsless models?strong WW scattering, extra D?
Kraml et al: hep-ph/0608079
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Elementary Higgs or Composite?
• Higgs field:
<0|H|0> ≠ 0• Quantum loop problems
• Fermion-antifermion condensate
• Just like QCD, BCS superconductivity
• Top-antitop condensate? needed mt > 200 GeV
• New technicolour force? consistency with precision electroweak data?• Cut-off Λ ~ 1 TeV with
Supersymmetry?
Cutoff Λ = 10 TeV
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Searches for Technicolour
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What is Supersymmetry (Susy)?
• The last undiscovered symmetry?
• Could unify matter and force particles
• Links fermions and bosons
• Relates particles of different spins
0 - ½ - 1 - 3/2 - 2 Higgs - Electron - Photon - Gravitino - Graviton
• Helps fix masses, unify fundamental forces
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Other Reasons to like Susy
It enables the gauge couplings to unify
It predicts mH < 150 GeV
JE, Nanopoulos, Olive + Santoso: hep-ph/0509331
As suggestedby EW data
Erler: 2006
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Astronomers tell us that most of the matter in the universe is invisible
We will look for it
with the LHC
Dark Matter in the Universe
Astronomers saythat most of thematter in theUniverse isinvisible Dark Matter
Lightest Supersymmetric particles ?
We shall look for them with the
LHC
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Constraints on Supersymmetry
• Absence of sparticles at LEP, Tevatron
selectron, chargino > 100 GeV
squarks, gluino > 250 GeV
• Indirect constraints
Higgs > 114 GeV, b → s γ
• Density of dark matter
lightest sparticle χ:
WMAP: 0.094 < Ωχh2 < 0.124
3.3 σeffect ingμ – 2?
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Classic Supersymmetric Signature
Missing transverse energy
carried away by dark matter particles
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Limits on Sparticles
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Current Constraints on CMSSM
WMAP constraint on relic density
Excluded because stau LSP
Excluded by b s gamma
Excluded (?) by latest g - 2
Focus-point region at large m0Assuming the lightest sparticleis a neutralino
JE + Olive + Santoso + Spanos
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Sparticles may not be very light
FullModel
samples
Detectable@ LHC
ProvideDark Matter
Dark MatterDetectable
Directly
Lightest visible sparticle →
← S
econd lightest visible sparticle
JE + Olive + Santoso + Spanos
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Strategies for Detecting Supersymmetric Dark Matter
• Annihilation in galactic haloχ – χ antiprotons, positrons, …?
• Annihilation in galactic centreχ – χ γ + …?
• Annihilation in core of Sun or Earthχ – χ ν + … μ + …
• Scattering on nucleus in laboratoryχ + A χ + A
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Search for Supersymmetric Dark Matter
Limits on scattering of dark matter
vs
Predictions in some susy models
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Open Questions beyond the Standard Model
• What is the origin of particle masses?due to a Higgs boson? + other physics?solution at energy < 1 TeV (1000 GeV)
• Why so many types of matter particles?matter-antimatter difference?
• Unification of the fundamental forces?at very high energy ~ 1016 GeV?probe directly via baryon decay, neutrino physics, indirectly via masses, couplings
• Quantum theory of gravity?(super)string theory: extra space-time dimensions?
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New Physics Constraints from B Mesons
• Good consistency with CKM predictions
• Start to constrain BSM, e.g., supersymmetry
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Searches for ‘Axions’
• Solve strong CP problem• Constraints from astrophysics• Laboratory searches begin to bite• Variants also considered
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Search for CPT Violation
• Probes with neutral kaons
• Look for mass,
lifetime differences
• Quantum gravity might
yield decoherence?
would violate CPT
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Open Questions beyond the Standard Model
• What is the origin of particle masses?due to a Higgs boson? + other physics?solution at energy < 1 TeV (1000 GeV)
• Why so many types of matter particles?matter-antimatter difference?
• Unification of the fundamental forces?at very high energy ~ 1016 GeV?probe directly via baryon decay, neutrino physics, indirectly via masses, couplings
• Quantum theory of gravity?(super)string theory: extra space-time dimensions?
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Searches for Baryon Decay
Compilation of limits on
different decay modes
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New Gravitational Physics?
Indirect evidence for
gravitational waves Limits on deviations
from Einstein/Newton
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String Theory
• Candidate for reconciling gravity with quantum mechanics
• Point-like particles → extended objects• Simplest possibility: lengths of string• Quantum consistency fixes # dimensions:• Bosonic string: 26, superstring: 10• Must compactify extra dimensions, scale ~ 1/mP?• Or larger?
Any way to test it?
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How large could extra Dimensions be?
• 1/TeV?could break supersymmetry, electroweak
• micron?can rewrite hierarchy problem
• Infinite?warped compactifications
• Look for black holes, Kaluza-Klein excitations @ colliders?
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And if gravity becomes strong at the TeV scale …
Black Hole Production at LHC?
Multiple jets,
leptons from
Hawking
radiation
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… but sometimes not
Sometimes New Particles appear as they were expected …
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SEARCH FOR GLUONS IN e+ e- ANNIHILATION.
John R. Ellis, Mary K. Gaillard, Graham G. Ross .
CERN-TH-2161, Apr 1976, Nucl.Phys.B111:253,1976
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Haiku by Matsuo Basho
In a way,it was quite funnot to see Mount Fujiin foggy rain
– Interesting for theorists– But the politicians would rather we found something