ATLAS Z-Path Masterclass 2011. It’s the dawn of an exciting age of new discovery in particle physics! At CERN, the LHC and its experiments are tuning.

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ATLAS Z-Path Masterclass 2011

It’s the dawn of an exciting age of new discovery in particle physics! At CERN, the LHC and its experiments are tuning up. The ATLAS detector has been taking data. Our job is to understand how the detector responds to data from a known Standard Model particle in the recent 7 TeV run. The LHC and New Physics

The LHC is buried ~100 m below the surface near the Swiss-French border. The LHC and New Physics

Generic Design Cylinders wrapped around the beam pipe From inner to outer... Tracking Electromagnetic calorimeter Hadronic calorimeter Magnet* Muon chamber * Location of magnet depends on specific detector design. Detectors

View swf animation in browser. ATLAS Detector

The beam particles each have a total energy of 3.5 TeV: 2 x 3.5 TeV = 7 TeV The individual particles that make up the proton only have a fraction of this energy. New particles made in the collision always have a mass smaller than that energy. Proton Interactions

Particle Decays The collisions create new particles that promptly decay. Decaying particles always produce lighter particles. Conservation laws allow us to see patterns in the decays. Can you name some of these conservation laws?

Particle Decays Often, quarks are scattered in collisions. As they separate, the binding energy between them converts to sprays of new particles called jets. Also, lower energy electrons and muons can emerge. They are not what we are looking for.

We are looking for the Z boson, a particle with no charge that decays into two muons or two electrons.* What do we know about the charges of the muons or electrons? What is the charge of the Z? Particle Decays *The Z has other decays... but these are not what we are looking for.

Particle Decays A “dimuon” or “dielectron” event might be a decay of the particle that we are interested in. It may be hard to find the tracks we want unless we make a “cut” on low- energy tracks.

Particle Decays If we cut out all tracks below, say, 5 GeV momentum, the picture is clearer. Today, we will filter many events to find Z  e e and Z   signals and use momentum information from these to find the mass of the Z boson.

HYPATIA Event Display

ATLAS Mass Plot From: W Mass as a Calibration of the Jet Energy Scale in ATLAS (poster, 2008) Daniel Goldin, Southern Methodist University, for the ATLAS Collaborationhttp://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/ /files/ATL-SLIDE ppthttp://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/ /files/ATL-SLIDE ppt

Histogram Review Well-defined peak Outliers: lower frequency Where is the peak? What is the width? Is the “mass” precise?

Where is the peak? What is the width? Where are the outliers? Not all histograms have same precision. Histogram Review

Twin peaks:  Poor definition of one signal or  Two signals In particle physics, could be:  Two separate particles or  Large signal as "background" and smaller “bump” showing actual particle under study. Histogram Review

“Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.” George Santayana  Indirect observations and imaginative, critical, logical thinking can lead to reliable and valid inferences.  Therefore: work together, think (sometimes outside the box), and be critical of each other’s results to figure out what is happening. Keep in Mind...

Let’s Analyze Events! Make teams of two. Practice. Talk with physicists. Find good Z candidates. Which events will be included in the mass plot? AND plot the mass! Report! Rapport! Rejoice! Relax!