Let’s recap: We’ve worked through 2 MATHEMATICAL MECHANISMS for manipulating Lagrangains ntroducing SELF-INTERACTION terms (generalized “mass” te owed that a specific GROUND STATE of a system need T display the full available symmetry of the Lagrangian fectively changing variables by expanding the field about t OUND STATE (from which we get the physically meaningful ERGY values, anyway) showed e scalar field ends up with a mass term; a 2 nd (extrane parently massless field (ghost particle) can be gauged away. Any GAUGE FIELD coupling to this scalar (introduced by local inavariance) acquires a mass as well!
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Let’s recap: We’ve worked through 2 MATHEMATICAL MECHANISMS for manipulating Lagrangains Introducing SELF-INTERACTION terms (generalized “mass” terms)
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Let’s recap:We’ve worked through 2 MATHEMATICAL MECHANISMS
for manipulating Lagrangains
Introducing SELF-INTERACTION terms (generalized “mass” terms)showed that a specific GROUND STATE of a system need NOT display the full available symmetry of the Lagrangian
Effectively changing variables by expanding the field about the GROUND STATE (from which we get the physically meaningful ENERGY values, anyway) showed
•The scalar field ends up with a mass term; a 2nd (extraneous) apparently massless field (ghost particle) can be gauged away.
•Any GAUGE FIELD coupling to this scalar (introduced by local inavariance) acquires a mass as well!
We then applied these techniques by introducing the scalar Higgs fields
through a weak iso-doublet (with a charged and uncharged state)
+
0Higgs=
0v+H(x)
=
which, because of the explicit SO(4) symmetry, the proper
gauge selection can rotate us within the1, 2, 3, 4 space,
reducing this to a single observable real field which we we expand about the vacuum expectation value v.
With the choice of gauge settled: +
0Higgs=0
v+H(x)=
Let’s try to couple these scalar “Higgs” fields to W, B which means
WigBig
22 21
YDreplace:
which makes the 1st term in our Lagrangian:
WigBigWigBig
22222
12121
YY †
The “mass-generating” interaction is identified by simple constantsproviding the coefficient for a term simply quadratic in the gauge fields
so let’s just look at:
vHWigBig
vHWigBig
0
22
0
222
12121
YY †
where Y =1 for the coupling to B
vHWigBig
vHWigBig
0
22
10
22
1
2
12121
†
recall that
τ ·W→ →
= W1 + W2 + W30 11 0
0 -ii 0
1 00 -1
= W3 W1iW2
W1iW2 W3
12
= ( )
3
21
22W
gBg
2
321
22W
gBg
)(2
2 g
)(2
2 g
0
H + v0 H +v
18
= ( ) 321
WgBg 2
Zgg 2
2
2
1
Wg2
2 0
H + v0 H +v
†
†
18
= ( )H +v† ( )H +v
W1iW2
W1iW2
Wg2
2
( 2g22W+
W+ + (g12+g2
2) ZZ )†
18
= ( )H +v† ( )H +v( 2g22W+
W+ + (g12+g2
2) ZZ )†
No AA term has been introduced! The photon is massless!
But we do get the terms
18
v22g22W+
W+† MW = vg2
18 (g1
2+g22 )Z Z MZ = v√g1
2 + g221
2
MW
MZ
2g2
√g12 + g2
2
At this stage we may not know precisely the values of g1 and g2, but note:
=
12
e e
W
u e
e
W
d
e+e + N p + e+e
~gW =e
sinθW( )2 2
g1g2
g12+g1
2 = e
and we do know THIS much about g1 and g2
to extraordinary precision!
from other weak processes:
lifetimes (decay rate cross sections) give us sin2θW
Notice = cos W according to this theory.MW
MZ
where sin2W=0.2325 +0.00159.0019
We don’t know v, but information on the coupling constants g1 and g2 follow from
• lifetime measurements of -decay: neutron lifetime=886.7±1.9 sec and • a high precision measurement of muon lifetime=2.19703±0.00004 sec and • measurements (sometimes just crude approximations perhaps) of the cross-sections for the inverse reactions:
e- + p n + eelectron capture
e + p e+ + n anti-neutrino absorption
as well as e + e- e- + e neutrino scattering
Until 1973 all observed weak interactions were consistent with only a charged boson.
All of which can be compared in ratios to similar reactions involving well-known/well-measured simple QED scattering (where the coupling is simply e2=1/137).
Fine work for theorists, but drew very little attentionfrom the rest of the high energy physics community
1973 (CERN): first neutral current interaction observed ν + nucleus → ν + p + π + πo
Suddenly it became very urgent to observe W±, Zo bosons directly to test electroweak theory.
_ _
The Gargamelle heavy-liquid bubble chamber, installed into the magnet coils at CERN(1970)
The first example of the neutral-current process νμ + e →νμ + e.
The electron is projected forward with an energy of 400 MeV at an angle of 1.5 ± 1.5° to the beam, entering from the right.
ν + nucleus → ν + p + π + πo
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_ _
and interaction with neutronsproduced hadronic showerswith no net electic charge.
By early 1980s had the following theoretically predicted masses:
MZ = 92 0.7 GeV MW = cosWMZ = 80.2 1.1 GeV
Late spring, 1983 Mark II detector, SLAC August 1983 LEP accelerator at CERN
discovered opposite-sign lepton pairs with an invariant mass ofMZ=92 GeV
and lepton-missing energy (neutrino) invariant masses ofMW=80 GeV