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Lecture 14 – Neutral currents and electroweak unification. Neutral currents Electroweak unification Number of neutrinos and fermion generation The Standard Model The Higgs boson. Basic diagrams for weak neutral currents. Same quark flavour: u,d,s,c,b,t. Flavour changing:
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FK7003 Lecture 14 – Neutral currents and electroweak unification • Neutral currents • Electroweak unification • Number of neutrinos and fermion generation • The Standard Model • The Higgs boson
FK7003 Basic diagrams for weak neutral currents Same quark flavour: u,d,s,c,b,t Flavour changing: forbidden u c u c Same quark flavour: u,d,s,c,b,t Flavour changing: forbidden
FK7003 Using the mixed states = + +
FK7003 Question e- Z0 s K0 K- forbidden u d
FK7003 g,Z0 s s Neutral currents f
FK7003 Rare decays s u W u d
FK7003 First evidence for neutral current weak processes e-
FK7003 Electroweak theory
FK7003 Electroweak unification ne
FK7003 Electroweak theory predictions
FK7003 A small correction
FK7003 Strategy for directly observing Z0 ?
FK7003 Measuring the mass and decays of a Z0
FK7003 Energy dependence mostly mostly
FK7003 LEP
FK7003 The Z0 resonance is what concerns us. What can we learn from it ? Lower energy experiments LEP + SLD (at Z0)
Resonances reminder From lecture 4 Short-lived particles simply don’t have well-defined masses. Their masses follow a Breit-Wigner distribution 770 MeV – ”nominal” mass FK7003
FK7003 What an experiment observes
FK7003 The Z0 resonance LEP
FK7003 There are three light neutrino species Combined data from LEP experiments This is where we end the story.
FK7003 The Standard Model
The most rigorous test of the Standard Model to date: g-2 Basic interaction with B field photon Next to leading order correction Higher order corrections FK7003
FK7003 Summary • Neutral currents • Flavour changing vertices • Electroweak unification and measurement of the Z0resonance • 3 light neutrinos • 3 fermion generations