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1
Particle Physics
  • Why do particle physics?
  • Standard model
  • particle physics is high energy physics
  • accelerators
  • detectors
  • triggers, data recording
  • analysis
  • interpretation
  • Webpages of interest
  • http//www-d0.fnal.gov (Fermilab homepage)
  • http//sg1.hep.fsu.edu/wahl/Quarknet/index.html
    (has links to many particle physics sites)
  • http//www.fnal.gov/pub/tour.html
    (Fermilab particle physics tour)
  • http//ParticleAdventure.org/
    (Lawrence Berkeley Lab.)
  • http//www.cern.ch (CERN -- European Laboratory
    for Particle Physics)

Outline
2
Goals of particle physics
  • particle physics or high energy physics
  • is looking for the smallest constituents of
    matter (the ultimate building blocks) and for
    the fundamental forces between them
  • aim is to find description in terms of the
    smallest number of particles and forces
    (interactions)
  • at given length scale, it is useful to describe
    matter in terms of specific set of constituents
    which can be treated as fundamental
    at shorter length scale, these fundamental
    constituents may turn out to consist of smaller
    parts (be composite).
  • in 19th century, atoms were considered smallest
    building blocks,
  • early 20th century research electrons, protons,
    neutrons
  • now evidence that nucleons have substructure -
    quarks
  • going down the size ladder atoms -- nuclei --
    nucleons -- quarks -- preons ???... ???

3
Issues of High Energy Physics
  • Why?
  • To understand more organized forms of matter
  • To understand the origin and destiny of the
    universe.
  • Basic questions
  • Are there irreducible building blocks?
  • Are there few or infinitely many?
  • What are they?
  • What are their properties?
  • What is mass?
  • What is charge?
  • What is flavor?
  • How do the building blocks interact?
  • Why are there 3 forces?
  • gravity, electroweak, strong
  • (or are there more?)

4
Standard Model
  • A theoretical model of interactions of elementary
    particles
  • Symmetry
  • SU(3) x SU(2) x U(1)
  • Matter particles
  • quarks
  • up, down, charm,strange, top bottom
  • leptons
  • electron, muon, tau, neutrinos
  • Force particles
  • Gauge Bosons
  • ? (electromagnetic force)
  • W?, Z (weak, elctromagnetic)
  • g gluons (strong force)
  • Higgs boson
  • spontaneous symmetry breaking of SU(2)
  • mass

5
Standard Model
6
Building Blocks
  • Fundamental Forces Bosons
  • Point-like Particles Fermions

7
Matter constituents and force carriers
  • (1994 summary from the Contemporary Physics
    Education Project at LBNL)

8
And top is very very heavy !!!
  • This mass (175 GeV/c2) is 40x larger than the
    next most massive quark. Is this just an
    accident or does it point to some deeper truth
    about the nature of Electroweak symmetry breaking
    ?

9
Brief History of the Standard Model
  • Late 1920s - early 1930s Dirac, Heisenberg,
    Pauli, others extend Maxwells theory of EM to
    include Special Relativity QM (QED) - but it
    only works to lowest order!
  • 1933 Fermi introduces 1st theory of weak
    interactions, analogous to QED, to explain b
    decay.
  • 1935 Yukawa predicts the pion as carrier of a
    new, strong force to explain recently observed
    hadronic resonances.
  • 1937 muon is observed in cosmic rays
  • 1938 heavy W as mediator of weak interactions?
    (Klein)
  • 1947 pion is observed in cosmic rays
  • 1949 Dyson, Feynman, Schwinger, and Tomonaga
    introduce renormalization into QED - most
    accurate theory to date!
  • 1954 Yang and Mills develop Gauge Theories
  • 1950s - early 1960s more than 100 hadronic
    resonances have been observed !
  • 1962 two neutrinos!
  • 1964 Gell-Mann Zweig propose a scheme whereby
    resonances are interpreted as composites of 3
    quarks. (up, down, strange)

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Brief History of the Standard Model (continued)
  • 1970 Glashow, Iliopoulos, Maiani 4th quark
    (charm) explains suppression of K decay into ??
  • 1964-1967spontaneous symmetry breaking (Higgs,
    Kibble)
  • 1967 Weinberg Salam propose a unified Gauge
    Theory of electroweak interactions, introducing
    the W,Z as force carriers and the Higgs fieldto
    provide the symmetry breaking mechanism.
  • 1967 deep inelastic scattering shows Bjorken
    scaling
  • 1969 parton picture (Feynman, Bjorken)
  • 1971-1972 Gauge theories are renormalizable
    (tHooft, Veltman, Lee, Zinn-Justin..)
  • 1972 high pt pions observed at the CERN ISR
  • 1973 Gell-Mann Fritzsch propose that quarks
    are held together by a Gauge-Field whose quanta,
    gluons, mediate the strong force Þ Quantum
    Chromodynamics
  • 1973 neutral currents observed (Gargamelle
    bubble chamber at CERN)

11
Brief History of the Standard Model (continued)
  • 1975 J/? interpreted as cc bound state
    (charmonium)
  • 1974 J/? discovered at BNL/SLAC
  • 1976 t lepton discovered at SLAC
  • 1977 ? discovered at Fermilab in 1977,
    interpreted as bb bound state (bottomonium) ?
    3rd generation
  • 1979 gluon observed at DESY
  • 1982 direct evidence for jets in hadron hadron
    interactions
  • 1983 W, Z observed at CERN
  • 1995 top quark found at Fermilab (D0, CDF)
  • 2000 direct evidence for tau neutrino (??) at
    Fermilab (DONUT experiment)

12
Collisions at the Tevatron
  • pp Collisions Þ qq(g) Interacts

Fermilab
13
Questions at the Tevatron
  • The Standard Model
  • Electro-Weak (EM Weak Interacts)
  • W,Z,g quarks leptons
  • Most Accurate Theory ever !(but only for
    fundamental particles)
  • Simple Processes Þ Real Tests
  • QCD (Strong Force)
  • gluons quarks
  • High E Þ Accurate PredictionsLow E Þ Not a
    simple Theory
  • Range of Es accessible for partons in proton
  • Properties of Particles
  • All Quarks and Leptons Produced(only place for
    top quark)
  • All Gauge Bosons..almost
  • What about the Higgs?

14
More Questions
  • The SM works great !Why change it ?
  • Has 18 arbitrary parametersÞ Where do they come
    from ?
  • Is the Higgs really what we think it should be ?
  • 2 Strategies
  • Look Harder Precision
  • Get a Bigger Hammer Energy
  • The Tevatron is well suited to both of these
    strategies

15
Fermilab Upgrade
16
DÆ Upgrade
17
Experimental High Energy Physics
  • Method
  • Subject matter to extreme temperatures and
    densities.
  • Energy 2 trillion eV
  • Temperature 24,000 trillion K
  • Density 2000 x nuclear density
  • Accelerate sub-atomic particles, to closer than
    100 millionth the speed of light, and arrange for
    them to collide head on.
  • Study the debris of particles that emerges from
    the collisions.

18
ExampleCreating Top Quarks
b (-1/3)
t (2/3)
P (-1)
P (1)
t (-2/3)
b (1/3)
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Research Program
  • DØ Experiment
  • To study 2 TeV proton antiproton collisions
  • Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois
  • Next run begins in April 2001
  • CMS Experiment
  • To study 14 TeV proton antiproton collisions
  • CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
  • First run begins in 2005
  • Hellaz Experiment
  • To study 1 MeV neutrinos from the Sun. When?!!!

20
Particle physics experiments
  • Particle physics experiments
  • collide particles to
  • produce new particles
  • reveal their internal structure and laws of
    their interactions by observing regularities,
    measuring cross sections,...
  • colliding particles need to have high energy
  • to make objects of large mass
  • to resolve structure at small distances
  • to study structure of small objects
  • need probe with short wavelength use particles
    with high momentum to get short wavelength
  • remember de Broglie wavelength of a particle ?
    h/p
  • in particle physics, mass-energy equivalence
    plays an important role in collisions, kinetic
    energy converted into mass energy
  • relation between kinetic energy K, total energy E
    and momentum p
    E K mc2 ?(pc)2 (mc2)c2

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About Units
  • Energy - electron-volt
  • 1 electron-volt kinetic energy of an electron
    when moving through potential difference of 1
    Volt
  • 1 eV 1.6 10-19 Joules 2.1 10-6 Ws
  • 1 kWhr 3.6 106 Joules 2.25 1025 eV
  • mass - eV/c2
  • 1 eV/c2 1.78 10-36 kg
  • electron mass 0.511 MeV/c2
  • proton mass 938 MeV/c2
  • professors mass (80 kg) ? 4.5 1037 eV/c2
  • momentum - eV/c
  • 1 eV/c 5.3 10-28 kg m/s
  • momentum of baseball at 80 mi/hr
    ? 5.29 kgm/s ? 9.9 1027 eV/c

22
How to do a particle physics experiment
  • Outline of experiment
  • get particles (e.g. protons, antiprotons,)
  • accelerate them
  • throw them against each other
  • observe and record what happens
  • analyse and interpret the data
  • ingredients needed
  • particle source
  • accelerator and aiming device
  • detector
  • trigger (decide what to record)
  • recording device
  • many people to
  • design, build, test, operate accelerator
  • design, build, test, calibrate, operate, and
    understand detector
  • analyse data
  • lots of money to pay for all of this

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How to get high energy collisions
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  • Need Ecom to be large enough to
  • allow high momentum transfer (probe small
    distances)
  • produce heavy objects (top quarks, Higgs boson)
  • e.g. top quark production ee- tt,
    qq tt, gg tt,
  • Shoot particle beam on a target (fixed target)
  • Ecom 2ÖEmc2 20 GeV for E 100 GeV,
    m 1 GeV/c2
  • Collide two particle beams (collider
  • Ecom 2E 200 GeV for E 100 GeV

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How to make qq collisions, contd
  • However, quarks are not found free in nature!
  • But (anti)quarks are elements of (anti)protons.
  • So, if we collide protons and anti-protons we
    should get some qq collisions.
  • Proton structure functions give the probability
    that a single quark (or gluon) carries a
    fraction x of the proton momentum (which is 900
    GeV/c at the Tevatron)

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Accelerator
  • accelerators
  • use electric fields to accelerate particles,
    magnetic fields to steer and focus the beams
  • synchrotron
    particle beams kept in circular orbit by
    magnetic field at every turn, particles kicked
    by electric field in accelerating station
  • fixed target operation particle beam extracted
    from synchrotron, steered onto a target
  • collider operation
    accelerate bunches of protons and antiprotons
    moving in opposite direction in same ring make
    them collide at certain places where detectors
    are installed

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Fermilab accelerator complex

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ACCELERATORS
  • are devices to increase the energy of charged
    particles
  • use magnetic fields to shape (focus and bend) the
    trajectory of the particles
  • use electric fields for acceleration.
  • types of accelerators
  • electrostatic (DC) accelerators
  • Cockcroft-Walton accelerator (protons up to 2
    MeV)
  • Van de Graaff accelerator (protons up to 10 MeV)
  • Tandem Van de Graaff accelerator (protons up to
    20 MeV)
  • resonance accelerators
  • cyclotron (protons up to 25 MeV)
  • linear accelerators
  • electron linac 100 MeV to 50 GeV
  • proton linac up to 70 MeV
  • synchronous accelerators
  • synchrocyclotron (protons up to 750 MeV)
  • proton synchrotron (protons up to 900 GeV)
  • electron synchrotron (electrons from 50 MeV to 90
    GeV)
  • storage ring accelerators (colliders)

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ACCELERATORS, contd
  • electrostatic accelerators
  • generate high voltage between two
    electrodes ? charged particles move in
    electric field,
    energy gain charge times voltage drop
  • Cockcroft-Walton and Van de Graaff
    accelerators differ in method to achieve high
    voltage.
  • proton linac (drift tube accelerator)
  • cylindrical metal tubes (drift tubes) along axis
    of large vacuum tank
  • successive drift tubes connected to opposite
    terminals of AC voltage source
  • no electric field inside drift tube ? while in
    drift tube, protons move with constant velocity
  • AC frequency such that protons always find
    accelerating field when reaching gap between
    drift tubes
  • length of drift tubes increases to keep drift
    time constant
  • for very high velocities, drift tubes nearly of
    same length (nearly no velocity increase when
    approaching speed of light)

29
Accelerators, contd
  • cyclotron
  • consists of two hollow metal chambers called
    (dees for their shape, with open sides which
    are parallel, slightly apart from each other
    (gap)
  • dees connected to AC voltage source - always one
    dee positive when other negative ? electric field
    in gap between dees, but no electric field inside
    the dees
  • source of protons in center, everything in vacuum
    chamber
  • whole apparatus in magnetic field perpendicular
    to plane of dees
  • frequency of AC voltage such that particles
    always accelerated when reaching the gap between
    the dees
  • in magnetic field, particles are deflected
    p q?B?R p momentum, q charge,
    B magnetic field strength,
    R radius of curvature
  • radius of path increases as momentum of proton
    increases time for passage always the same as
    long as momentum proportional to velocity

    this is not true when velocity becomes too big
    (relativistic change of mass'')

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Accelerators relativistic effects
  • relativistic effects
  • special relativity tells us that certain
    approximations made in Newtonian mechanics break
    down at very high speeds
  • relation between momentum and velocity in old
    (Newtonian) mechanics p m v becomes p mo v
    ?, with ? 1/?1 - (v/c)2
    mo
    rest mass, i.e. mass is replaced by rest
    mass times ? -
    relativistic growth of mass
  • factor ? often called Lorentz factor
    ubiquitous in relations from special relativity
    energy E moc2?
  • acceleration in a cyclotron is possible as long
    as relativistic effects are negligibly small,
    i.e. only for small speeds, where momentum is
    still proportional to speed at higher speeds,
    particles not in resonance with accelerating
    frequency for acceleration, need to change
    magnetic field B or accelerating frequency f or
    both

________
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Accelerators, contd
  • electron linac
  • electrons reach nearly speed of light at small
    energies (at 2 MeV, electrons have 98 of speed
    of light)
    no drift tubes use travelling e.m. wave
    inside resonant cavities for acceleration.
  • synchrocyclotron
  • B kept constant, f decreases
  • synchrotron
  • B increases during acceleration,
    f fixed (electron synchrotron)
    or varied (proton synchrotron)
    radius of
    orbit fixed.

32
Particle detectors, contd
  • Scintillator
  • energy liberated in de-excitation and capture of
    ionization electrons emitted as light -
    scintillation light'
  • light channeled to photomultiplier in light guide
    (e.g. optical fibers)
  • scintillating materials certain crystals (e.g.
    NaI), transparent plastics with doping (fluors
    and wavelength shifters)
  • proportional tube
  • metallic tube with thin wire in center, filled
    with gas, HV between wall (-, cathode) and
    central wire (,anode) ? strong electric
    field near wire
  • charged particle in gas ? ionization ? electrons
    liberated
  • electrons accelerated in electric field ? can
    liberate other electrons by ionization which in
    turn are accelerated and ionize ? avalanche of
    electrons moves to wire ? current pulse current
    pulse amplified ? electronic signal
  • gas is usually noble gas (e.g. argon), with some
    additives e.g. carbon dioxide, methane,
    isobutane,..) as quenchers

33
Particle detectors, contd
  • multi wire proportional chamber
  • contains many parallel anode wires between two
    cathode planes (array of prop.tubes with
    separating walls taken out)
  • operation similar to proportional tube
  • cathodes can be metal strips or wires ? get
    additional position information from cathode
    signals.
  • drift chamber
  • field shaping wires and electrodes on wall to
    create very uniform electric field, and divide
    chamber volume into drift cells, each
    containing one anode wire
  • within drift cell, electrons liberated by passage
    of particle move to anode wire, with avalanche
    multiplication near anode wire
  • arrival time of pulse gives information about
    distance of particle from anode wire ratio of
    pulses at two ends of anode wire gives position
    along anode wire

34
Particle detectors, contd
  • Cherenkov detector
  • measure Cherenkov light (amount and/or angle)
    emitted by particle going through counter volume
    filled with transparent gas liquid, aerogel,
    or solid ? get information about speed of
    particle.
  • calorimeter
  • destructive method of measuring a particle's
    energy put enough material into particle's way
    to force formation of electromagnetic or hadronic
    shower (depending on kind of particle)
  • eventually particle loses all of its energy in
    calorimeter
  • energy deposit gives measure of original
    particle energy.
  • Note
    many of the detectors and techniques
    developed for particle and nuclear physics are
    now being used in medicine, mostly diagnosis, but
    also for therapy.

35
Identifying particles
36
Particle Identification
Muon BC
Magnet
Muon A-Layer
Hadronic Layers
Calorimeter
EM Layers
Central Tracking
Beam Axis
e
g
jet
m
n
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What do we actually see
Muon
Jet-1
Jet-2
Missing energy
Electron
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Detectors
  • Detectors
  • use characteristic effects from interaction of
    particle with matter to detect, identify and/or
    measure properties of particle has transducer
    to translate direct effect into
    observable/recordable (e.g. electrical) signal
  • example our eye is a photon detector
  • seeing is performing a photon scattering
    experiment
  • light source provides photons
  • photons hit object of our interest -- some
    absorbed, some scattered, reflected
  • some of scattered/reflected photons make it into
    eye focused onto retina
  • photons detected by sensors in retina
    (photoreceptors -- rods and cones)
  • transduced into electrical signal (nerve pulse)
  • amplified when needed
  • transmitted to brain for processing and
    interpretation

39
Particle interactions with matter
  • electromagnetic interactions
  • excitation
  • ionization
  • Cherenkov radiation
  • transmission radiation
  • bremsstrahlung
  • photoelectric effect
  • Compton scattering
  • pair production
  • strong interactions
  • secondary hadron production,
  • hadronic showers
  • detectors usually have some amplification
    mechanism

40
Interaction of particles with matter
  • when passing through matter,
  • particles interact with the electrons and/or
    nuclei of the medium
  • this interaction can be electromagnetic or
    strong interaction, depending on the kind of
    particle its effects can be used to detect the
    particles
  • possible interactions and effects in passage of
    particles through matter
  • excitation of atoms or molecules (e.m. int.)
  • charged particles can excite an atom or molecule
    (i.e. lift electron to higher energy state)
  • subsequent de-excitation leads to emission of
    photons
  • ionization (e.m. int.)
  • electrons liberated from atom or molecule, can
    be collected, and charge is detected
  • Cherenkov radiation (e.m. int.)
  • if particle's speed is higher than speed of light
    in the medium, e.m. radiation is emitted --
    Cherenkov light or Cherenkov radiation, which
    can be detected
  • amount of light and angle of emission depend on
    particle velocity

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Interaction of particles with matter, contd
  • transition radiation (e.m. int.)
  • when a charged particle crosses the boundary
    between two media with different speeds of light
    (different refractive index), e.m. radiation is
    emitted -- transition radiation
  • amount of radiation grows with (energy/mass)
  • bremsstrahlung ( braking radiation) (e.m. int.)
  • when charged particle's velocity changes, e.m.
    radiation is emitted
  • due to interaction with nuclei, particles
    deflected and slowed down emit bremsstrahlung
  • effect stronger, the bigger (energy/mass) ?
    electrons with high energy most strongly
    affected
  • pair production (e.m. int.)
  • by interaction with e.m. field of nucleus,
    photons can convert into electron-positron pairs
  • electromagnetic shower (e.m. int.)
  • high energy electrons and photons can cause
    electromagnetic shower by successive
    bremsstrahlung and pair production
  • hadron production (strong int.)
  • strongly interacting particles can produce new
    particles by strong interaction, which in turn
    can produce particles,... hadronic shower

42
Examples of particle detectors
  • photomultiplier
  • photomultiplier tubes convert small light signal
    (even single photon) into detectable charge
    (current pulse)
  • photons liberate electrons from photocathode,
  • electrons multiplied in several (6 to 14)
    stages by ionization and acceleration in high
    electric field between dynodes, with gain ?
    104 to 1010
  • photocathode and dynodes made from material with
    low ionization energy
  • photocathodes thin layer of semiconductor made
    e.g. from Sb (antimony) plus one or more alkali
    metals, deposited on glass or quartz
  • dynodes alkali or alkaline earth metal oxide
    deposited on metal, e.g. BeO on Cu (gives high
    secondary emission)

43
Examples of particle detectors
  • Spark chamber
  • gas volume with metal plates (electrodes) filled
    with gas (noble gas, e.g. argon)
  • charged particle in gas ? ionization ? electrons
    liberated
    ? string of electron - ion pairs along particle
    path
  • passage of particle through trigger counters
    (scintillation counters) triggers HV
  • HV between electrodes ? strong electric field
  • electrons accelerated in electric field ? can
    liberate other electrons by ionization which in
    turn are accelerated and ionize ? avalanche of
    electrons, eventually formation of plasma
    between electrodes along particle path
  • gas conductive along particle path
    ? electric breakdown ? discharge ? spark
  • HV turned off to avoid discharge in whole gas
    volume

44
Examples of particle detectors, contd
  • Scintillation counter
  • energy liberated in de-excitation and capture of
    ionization electrons emitted as light -
    scintillation light
  • light channeled to photomultiplier in light guide
    (e.g. piece of lucite or optical fibers)
  • scintillating materials certain crystals (e.g.
    NaI), transparent plastics with doping (fluors
    and wavelength shifters)
  • Geiger-Müller counter
  • metallic tube with thin wire in center, filled
    with gas, HV between wall (-, cathode) and
    central wire (,anode) ? strong electric
    field near wire
  • charged particle in gas ? ionization ? electrons
    liberated
  • electrons accelerated in electric field ?
    liberate other electrons by ionization which in
    turn are accelerated and ionize ? avalanche of
    electrons avalanche becomes so big that all of
    gas ionized ? plasma formation ? discharge
  • gas is usually noble gas (e.g. argon), with some
    additives e.g. carbon dioxide, methane,
    isobutane,..) as quenchers

45
The D0 detector
46
DØ Calorimeter
  • Uranium-Liquid Argon sampling calorimeter
  • Linear, hermetic, and compensating
  • No central magnetic field!
  • Rely on EM calorimeter

47
DÆ Upgrade
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DÆ Upgrade Tracking
  • Silicon Tracker
  • Four layer barrels (double/single sided)
  • Interspersed double sided disks
  • 793,000 channels
  • Fiber Tracker
  • Eight layers sci-fi ribbon doublets (z-u-v, or z)
  • 74,000 830 mm fibers w/ VLPC readout

1.1
cryostat
  • Preshowers
  • Central
  • Scintillator strips
  • 6,000 channels
  • Forward
  • Scintillator strips
  • 16,000 channels
  • Solenoid
  • 2T superconducting

1.7
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Silicon Tracker

1/2 of detector
50 cm
3
8 DisksH
12 Disks F
7 barrels
1/7 of the detector (large-z disks
not shown)
387k ch in 4-layer double sided Si barrel
(stereo)
405k ch in interspersed disks (double sided
stereo) and large-z disks
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Silicon Tracker -Detectors
  • Disks
  • F disks wedge (small diameter)
  • 144 double sided detectors, 12 wedges 1disk
  • 50mm pitch, /-15 stereo
  • 7.5cm long, from r2.5 to 10cm, at
    z6,19,32,45,50,55 cm
  • H disk (large diameter)
  • 384 single sided detectors
  • 50 mm pitch
  • from r9.5-20 cm, z 94, 126 cm
  • Barrels
  • 7 modular, 4 layer barrel segments
  • single sided
  • layers 1 , 3 in two outermost barrels.
  • double sided
  • layers 1, 3 have 90o stereo (mpxd 31)
  • 50 100mm pitch, 2.1 cm wide
  • layers 2,4 have small angle stereo (2o)
  • 50 62.5mm pitch, 3.4 cm wide

12cm
two detectors wire bonded
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Trigger
  • Trigger device making decision on whether to
    record an event
  • why not record all of them?
  • we want to observe rare events
  • for rare events to happen sufficiently often,
    need high beam intensities ? many collisions take
    place
  • e.g. in Tevatron collider, proton and antiproton
    bunches will encounter each other every 132ns
  • at high bunch intensities, every beam crossing
    gives rise to collision ?
    about 7 million collisions per second
  • we can record about 20 to (maybe) 50 per second
  • why not pick 10 events randomly?
  • We would miss those rare events that we are
    really after
    e.g. top production ? 1 in
    1010 collisions Higgs production
    ? 1 in 1012 collisions
  • ? would have to record 50 events/second for 634
    years to get one Higgs event!
  • Storage needed for these events
    ? 3 ? 1011 Gbytes
  • Trigger has to decide fast which events not to
    record, without rejecting the goodies

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Sample cross sections
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Luminosity and cross section
  • Luminosity is a measure of the beam intensity
    (particles per
    area per second) (
    L1031/cm2/s )
  • integrated luminosity
    is a measure of the amount of data collected
    (e.g. 100 pb-1)
  • cross section s is measure of effective
    interaction area, proportional to the probability
    that a given process will occur.
  • 1 barn 10-24 cm2
  • 1 pb 10-12 b 10-36 cm2 10- 40 m2
  • interaction rate

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Trigger Configuration
Detector
L1 Trigger
L2 Trigger
1 kHz
7 MHz
10 kHz
L2Cal
CAL
FPS CPS
L1PS
L2PS
Global L2
L2CFT
CFT
L2STT
SMT
L2 Muon
L1 Muon
Muon
L1FPD
FPD
L2 Combined objects (e, m, j)
L1 towers, tracks
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DØ Experiment
  • Physicists
  • Susan Blessing
  • Sharon Hagopian
  • Vasken Hagopian
  • Stephan L. Linn
  • Harrison B. Prosper
  • Horst D. Wahl
  • Bill Lee
  • Silvia Tentindo-Repond
  • Graduate Students
  • Brian Connolly
  • Russell Gilmartin
  • Attila Gonenc
  • Craig Group
  • Jose Lazoflores
  • Yuri Lebedev
  • Sinjini Sengupta
  • Undergraduate student
  • Burnham Stokes
  • Research Interests
  • Top quarks
  • Supersymmetry
  • Leptoquarks
  • Higgs
  • Recent Work
  • Measurement of top quark mass
  • Search for leptoquarks
  • Search for supersymmetric top quarks

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CMS Experiment
  • Physicists
  • S. Hagopian
  • V. Hagopian
  • K. Johnson
  • H.B. Prosper
  • H.D. Wahl
  • Engineers
  • Maurizio Bertoldi
  • James Thomaston
  • Undergraduate student
  • Lucas Naveira
  • Research Interests
  • Supersymmetry
  • Higgs
  • Recent Work
  • RD of a laser-based monitoring system for the
    CMS calorimeter
  • RD of devices to scan large scintillating tiles.
  • Coordination of test beam experiments at CERN

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Summary
  • Dzero 2000 to 2005
  • Will remain the main focus of our research
    program for the next seven years.
  • We have a wonderful window of opportunity to make
    major contributions to our field.
  • CMS 2005 and beyond
  • The LHC will vastly increase our ability to probe
    Nature. We are very confident that CMS will have
    a profound impact on our understanding of
    particle physics.
  • Hellaz 2003 (?) and beyond
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