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Searching for the Higgs
Tara Shears
University of Liverpool
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What is particle physics?
Study of the infinitessimally small, fundamental parts of matter and their interactions
How small is small?
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Particle physics
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What is mass?
… energy? … Resistance to gravity?
…..property mediated by “Higgs Particle”
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AnalogyInteraction with Higgs field ( mass) ~ movement of body through medium
Light particles do not interact much (move fast)
More interaction – slower movement – more mass conferred
Heaviest particles …. most interaction
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What is mass?
…property mediated by “Higgs Particle”
nb …… we haven’t seen it yet …..
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Where is the Higgs?
LEP (1990-2000)
Electrons and positrons collide 40 million x a second
Four experiments
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Le Boson de Higgs en ligne de mire
Hints of new particle may be massive find for physicists
Svelata la particella di Dio
Das Teilchen GottesCzastka Higgsa
zlapana?
Atom smasher shut as ‘holy grail’ glimpsed
Scientists find “God’s particle”
11th hour stuff …
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Where is the Higgs?
September …… December 2000
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Where is the Higgs?
CDF:706 people
12 countries
D0:650 people
18 countries
Fermilab: 2001…2005….
World’s most powerful accelerator
…. still no sign …….
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Looking for Higgs - LHCWorld’s most powerful particle accelerator
2 beams of protons collide 40 million x a second
4 large experiments
Due to start in 2007
27 km
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aside: LHC vs. circle line
LHC Circle line
Length 27km 22.5km
Depth 100m 15m
Diameter 3.8m 3.4m
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Looking for Higgs - experiment
eg. …the ATLAS experiment:
5 storey building 7,000 tonnes 42m long 22m wide 22m high2,000 Physicists 150 Institutes 34 Countries
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Starting from this event…
We look for this “signature”Selectivity: 1 in 1013
Like looking for 1 person in a thousand world populations
Or for a needle in 20 million haystacks!
Finding Higgs• 800,000,000 proton-
proton interactions per second
• ~100,000,000 electronic channels
• 0.0002 Higgs per second
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HOW do we find the Higgs?
Distributed Computing Solution – Grid
Concorde(15 Km)
Balloon(30 Km)
CD stack with1 year LHC data!(~ 20 Km)
Mt. Blanc(4.8 Km)
…. a needle in 20 million haystacks!
LHC produces enough data to fill 14 million cds / year (1,000,000 times world annual book production!!)
Estimated we need 100,000 computers to analyse it all …..
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grid!
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summarySearch for origin of mass and Higgs major unanswered question
Hope for discovery at LHC
Immense technological and computing challenge: grid!