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The Asymmetry between Matter and Antimatter. Besma M’charek FEW, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Outline. The Standard Model of Physics and asymmetry between matter and antimatter Charge Parity (CP) violation. Measuring CP violation with the LHCb detector at CERN Geneva. Summary.
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The Asymmetry between Matter and Antimatter Besma M’charek FEW, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Outline • The Standard Model of Physics and asymmetry between matter and antimatter • Charge Parity (CP) violation. • Measuring CP violation with the LHCb detector at CERN Geneva. • Summary. “Matter /antimatter asymmetry” The asymmetry between matter and antimatter
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“The Standard Model” • The fundamental building block of matter consists of: 6 quarks (u, d, c, s, t, b) 6 leptons(e,μ,τ,νe,νμ,ντ). • These particles interact through four difference forces: • electromagnetic • strong forces • weak forces • gravity The asymmetry between matter and antimatter
Where is the antimatter? The asymmetry between matter and antimatter
Where is the antimatter? < 1011 sA 1011 s 106 s 300 s 300,000 y 1billion y 13.7 billion y 3000K matter + antimatter H/He 1st stars life EM EW hadrons nucleus atom The asymmetry between matter and antimatter
Charge Parity symmetry • Parity symmetry : • Parity P reflects a system into its mirror-image • What if your image behaves differently than you?? • Charge symmetry: • Charge conjugation C changes the electric charge of the particle. • e +e - • K -K + =>In weak interactions, charge symmetry is always violated =>In weak interactions, paritysymmetry is always violated • Charge Parity symmetry: • Changes a particle into its antiparticle. =>In weak interactions, CP is almostnever violated almost The asymmetry between matter and antimatter
Escher on CP violation… P CP C C P The asymmetry between matter and antimatter
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B-mesons in the LHCb detector • B-mesonsmix to: • In the LHCb detector, we want to study weak interaction with the special B-decays: Two quarks, one is always a b-quark B-mesons The asymmetry between matter and antimatter
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The LHCb detector The detector Results Simulation and Reconstruction The asymmetry between matter and antimatter
Summary • In the universe, there is an asymmetry between matter and antimatter. • We need CP-symmetry breaking in order to explain this asymmetry. • We will use the LHCb detector and study the decay of B-mesons (abundant in this detector). • We will measure the parameter γ The asymmetry between matter and antimatter
Additional slides!!! The asymmetry between matter and antimatter
History of our universe • First the universe was hot and compact: a soup of energetic photons and massive particles. • The laws of physics allow a sufficiently energetic photon to create a particle/antiparticle pair and a particle/antiparticle pair can annihilate into an energetic photon. • Annihilation and Creation happened continuously =>There was an equal amount of matter and anitmatter The asymmetry between matter and antimatter
The mixing of quarks in weak interactions is described by the CKM-matrix. The complex Vxy entries of the matrix are the ninegwparameters. The matrix can be written in a way that only two entries are left complex arguments. The arguments of those two entries are measurable. We want to measure one of these entries. . The CKM-matrix and the γ-parameter The asymmetry between matter and antimatter
Proposed project • Improvingthe reconstruction program • Developingthe selection procedure of the Bs->DsK events • Developingthe fitting method in order to obtain the γ-parameter from the selected events The asymmetry between matter and antimatter