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Collisions and kinematics
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Particle PhysicsFabrice Couderc / Eli BenHaim
NPAC 2020
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Overview
1. Special relativity for particle physicists1. Reminders2. Rapidity3. Pseudo-rapidity
2. Cross sections1. Introduction2. First example3. Cross section master formula4. Two-body phase space5. Luminosity6. Resonances
3. Particle total width1. Total width definition2. Branching ratio and partial width3. Master formula
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Reminder of special relativity
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A few definition
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Lorentz boost along z with velocity β
Hyperbolic trgonometry,
Express the rapidity of a particle of mass m and momentum |p| ?
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A few definition
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Lorentz boost along z with velocity β
Hyperbolic trgonometry,
Express the rapidity of a particle of mass m and momentum |p| ?
Particle physics
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Cross section definition
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The atomic model introduces the concept of cross section
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Cross section definition
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Consider a beam of particles B smashed on a target of particles A
= Number of scattering eventsNA NB
σA
With A the area of the beam(s)
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Cross section definition
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Assuming the projectile surface has a negligible surface, the probability of interaction is
P = (cross section) / (total area) = (sum of gray area ) / S
Cross section unit: 1 barn = 10-24 cm2 = 10-28 m2
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A first example
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Cross section of neutron on Americium 241, showing low energy 1/E dependence
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Cross section and matrix element
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http://pdg.lbl.gov/2018/reviews/rpp2018-rev-kinematics.pdfA lot is given in the booklet
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Rapidity plateau
11Number of charged particle emitted per unit of pseudo-rapidity in ALICE data
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Collider luminosity
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Resonances and e+e- cross section
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LO: usually dominates the σ Loop correction: Bound state qq
GeV
Overall behaviour as 1/s
Z is no a bound state
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Lifetime and width
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• Particles stable at the detector level✓ γ stable ✓ e stable ✓ p stable ✓ n : cτ = 2.6 108 km ✓ μ± : cτ = 658 m ✓ π± : cτ = 7.8 m ✓ K± : cτ = 3.7 m ✓ KL : cτ = 15.3 m
• Short-lived particles✓ KS, Λ… : 10-10s , cτ = Ο( 1cm) ✓ D mesons : cτ = Ο( 100 μm )✓ B mesons : cτ = Ο( 500 μm )
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Total width
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Partial width and branching fraction
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Partial width cont’d
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Measurement of the number of neutrino flavours at LEP
NB:this is measured with the hadronic decays of the Z only, i.e. the width in hadronic decay is the total ΓZ and not only Γhad.
Partial widths are not a measurable quantity only the total width is.
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Dalitz plot
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B → D K π
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Pure phase space Actual plot
Most of the decay pass throughthe D* resonance
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Complements
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Cockcroft Walton experiment
• 1932, first transmutation of a nuclei• Smash Ekin[p] ≈ 800 keV on a
Lithium target• Li7 + p → α + α ✓ M[Li7] = 6535.4 MeV✓ M[p] = 938.3 MeV✓ M[α] = 3728.4MeV
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Cockcroft Walton experiment
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Cockcroft-Walton generator, Fermilab
• Compute the total mass of the initial system ?
• Kinetic energy of p in the center of mass
• Justify that the center-of-mass frame is approx. the lab frame
• General 2-body decay✓ M → p1 + p2✓ Momentum of |p| of p1 and p2 in M rest-
frame✓ Apply that to M → 2 alphas
✓ Energy of alpha in the center of mass✓ Kinetic energy of each alpha in the lab ?
✓ Solve in 2 lines with the conservation of energy in the center-of-mass frame
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Cockcroft Walton experiment
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Nobel 1951
Known as the first experimental proof that mass can be converted into kinetic energy
Also the first actual alchemists !
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LHC parameters
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σ =
Find the instantaneous luminosity and convert it in nb-1 s-1
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Kurie plot
• Consider the reaction: n → p e- νe• From the maximum energy released in the reaction justify
✓ Ep/e = mp/e + Kp/e and that Kp << Ke
• Integrate the phase-space over d3pp• Then over dpνe δ(Ef-mn)• Find
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Kurie plot
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Constraint on neutrino mass
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Mν< 2eV