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The Standard Model

The Standard Model. Forces Strong nuclear force (QCD) Electroweak electromagnetism weak force Gravity. By comparing experimental results with predictions from the Standard Model, we test our understanding of the universe. ?. ?. ?. ?. ?. What are the Big Questions to be Answered?. ?.

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The Standard Model

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  1. TheStandardModel Forces • Strong nuclear force (QCD) • Electroweak • electromagnetism • weak force • Gravity • By comparing experimental results with predictions from the Standard Model, we test our understanding of the universe

  2. ? ? ? ? ? What are the Big Questions to be Answered? ? What is the origin of mass? Can all of the forces be unified? How do neutrinos oscillate? Why do we see more matter than anti-matter? What is out there that we have never observed? ? ? ? ? ? ?

  3. Fermilab • Tevatron • Currently, the world's premier accelerator facility • Proton-Anti-Proton collisions at a center of mass energy of 1.9 trillion electron-volts • Two collider experiments • D0 and CDF • Other physics • neutrino physics, CP-violation, astrophysics and more • Located outside of Chicago • Scientists from all around the world come to Fermilab to do high energy physics

  4. The D0 Experiment • Built around the collision point to detect particles flying out in all directions • Started taking data Spring, 2001 • Already 9x larger than previous data sets • Will take data until 2009 • Upgrade in 2006

  5. Calorimeter • Uranium-Liquid Argon sampling calorimeter Measure energy of hadrons and electrons FSU has a major responsibility for the D calorimeter

  6. Detector in Collision Hall January 2001

  7. D0 Data Taking 24 hours/day 7 days/week for the next 5+ years currently recording a few million events/day

  8. Physics of D0 • Higgs Boson • Supersymmetry • Single Top • Top Quark Properties • Electroweak Physics • QCD - Quantum ChromoDynamics. • Other new particle searches • Leptoquarks, extra dimensions, technicolor, etc.

  9. The DØ Collaboration ~700scientists, students and engineers 82institutions 20countries 130Ph.D. Dissertations 150papers published

  10. FSU Experimental D0 Faculty Yuri Gershstein Todd Adams Sharon Hagopian Susan Blessing S Harrison Prosper Vasken Hagopian Horst Wahl

  11. FSU experimental HEP graduate students José Lazoflores Daekwang Kau Sinjini Sengupta Edgar Carrera Suharyo Sumowidagdo Dan Duggan Sergei Gleyser

  12. FSU HEP postdocs Bill Lee Norm Buchanan Andrew Askew Jadranka Sekaric

  13. Examples of FSU graduates • Jeff McDonald (DØ, PhD 1999) • Dissertation: study of single top production • Now at FSU (Research Scientist), was at U. of Pittsburgh • Dan Karmgard (DØ, PhD 1999) • Dissertation: search for leptoquarks • Now at U. Notre Dame (CMS) • Richard Cavanaugh (Aleph, PhD 1999) • Dissertation: measurement of W mass • U. Florida (working on CMS, Grid), was at U. of Heidelberg • Brian Connolly (DØ, PhD 2002) • Dissertation: measurement of top quark mass in hadronic decay • Now at Columbia University (HiRes – cosmic rays)

  14. What do we do? • Hardware • Design, develop, test, and build electronics and detectors • Data-taking (shifts) • Software • Code writing and analysis algorithm development • Data analysis • discovery, measurements, tests • Presentations at meetings, seminars and conferences • Journal publications

  15. What will you do? • First 2 years • Finish coursework • Spend summers at Fermilab learning the experiment • Next several years • Hardware project - calorimeter • Data taking • Programming (C++, Linux, scripting) • Data analysis on your thesis topic • Final year • Presentation and publication of thesis work • Thesis defense • You will spend significant time at Fermilab

  16. Possible Thesis Topics Search for/Discover the Higgs Boson Search for new particles such as Supersymmetry, Technicolor, Leptoquarks, Cold Dark Matter, Extra Dimensions etc. Top Quark Physics QCD Studies including measuring the contents of the proton W mass measurements

  17. FSU People at D0

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