No. 5] Proc. Jpn. Acad., Ser. B 97 (2021) 211
Review Experimental verification of the standard model of particle physics
† By Tomio KOBAYASHI*1,
(Edited by Takaaki KAJITA, M.J.A.)
Abstract: The history concerning an experimental verification of the standard model of particle physics is reviewed with special emphasis on results from experiments using the highest- energy particle colliders, namely, PETRA, LEP and LHC. This article covers physics subjects from discovering the gluon and precise measurements at LEP, to discovering the Higgs boson. It also covers some searches for physics beyond the standard model, particularly supersymmetry, as well as recent developments of some particle detectors that were used in those experiments.
Keywords: standard model, gluon, Higgs boson, supersymmetry
1. Introduction Table 1. Fermions in the standard model as of 1974 1-st 2-nd 3-rd charge All theoretical ingredients for the standard particle model of particle physics were available by 1974, generation generation generation (e) and were ready to be scrutinized by experiments. up-type uct2/3 During 40 years thereafter, a number of discoveries quark and fine measurements were made, and the standard down-type dsb!1/3 model became established. quark
The standard model of particle physics is based neutrino 8e 87 8= 0 on theories that describe the elementary particles and charged e 7=!1 their interactions, namely the electro-magnetic, weak lepton and strong forces. Particle charges are in the unit of the elementary charge (e). The present particle contents of the standard Particles in the higher generation are heavier than the ones in model are given in Table 1 (fermions) and in Table 2 the lower generation, except that neutrinos are assumed to be (bosons). The particles in the hatched areas were not massless. The particles in hatched area were not found until 1974. found before 1974. Fermions (spin 1/2) were sup- posed to be the basic constituents of all material in Table 2. Bosons in the standard model as of 1974 the universe. Vector bosons (spin 1) are carriers of 2 the basic forces of the standard model, and a scaler particle spin charge (e) mass (GeV/c ) boson (spin 0) is responsible for the mass of all photon . 10 0 particles in the standard model. gluon g 10 0 The fundamental theory of the standard model charged weak boson W 1 ’1 80.385 is the gauge theory. The electro-magnetic interaction neutral weak boson Z 1 0 91.188 is described by the U(1) gauge theory: quantum Higgs boson H 0 0 125.1 electrodynamics (QED). The electro-magnetic force The particles in hatched area were not found until 1974. and the weak force are combined into the electro- weak (EW) force in the SU(2) # U(1) gauge theory, giving a massless photon (.) and massive weak bosons (W ’, Z 0). The Higgs mechanism was *1 International Center for Elementary Particle Physics introduced in the EW theory, so as to give masses (ICEPP), The University of Tokyo, Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo-ku, to the standard-model particles, and as a conse- Tokyo 113-0033, Japan. † quence a spinless neutral Higgs boson (H) should Correspondence should be addressed: T. Kobayashi, ro- 358, Asahi, Chiba 289-2516, Japan (e-mail: [email protected] exist. The strong force between quarks, and hence tokyo.ac.jp). between hadrons, is described by SU(3) gauge theory doi: 10.2183/pjab.97.013 ©2021 The Japan Academy 212 T. KOBAYASHI [Vol. 97, with 3 color charges. This theory, called quantum DESY then decided to buildpffiffiffi the world highest chromodynamics (QCD), predicts the existence of energy eDe! collider, PETRA ( s ¼ 46:8 GeV max.), gluons as the carrier of the strong force. But none of of which one of the main objectives was to find the the bosons, except for the photon, were found before top quark (t), a counterpart of the b quark in the 3-rd 1974. generation quark doublet. PETRA completed its The fermionic part of the standard model construction and started operation in 1978. The consists of quarks, which have all 3 interactions ICEPP team formed the international group, the (i.e., electro-magnetic, weak and strong forces), and JADE collaboration, together with German and UK leptons, which have 2 interactions other than the teams to participate in experiments at PETRA. strong interaction. Quarks, as well as leptons, appear The author joined the ICEPP team as a research as a pair (like u and d, or 8e and e) to form an SU(2) staff member in 1977, and participated in the JADE doublet of the weak interaction. Fermions in the 1-st experiment. The activities of ICEPP continued from generation are supposed to form almost all of the experiments at DESY to two experiments at the materials in the universe, since stable atoms or nuclei European Organization for Nuclear Research are made of them. (CERN): OPAL experiment using LEP eDe! collider Until 1974, all of the hadrons, including the from 1980, and ATLAS experiment using the LHC strange particles, were explained by the quark model proton-proton collider from 1992. The author was with 3 quarks (u, d and s). While the lepton doublet involved in all 3 experiments (JADE, OPAL and of the 2-nd generation (87, 7) was already found, the ATLAS) until 2015. counterpart of the s-quark was missing. The GIM This article describes the important findings mechanism1) was proposed to cure a strangeness- made by the experiments at PETRA, LEP and LHC, changing neutral-current problem, which predicted as well as those from other experiments, in the light the existence of a 4-th quark (charm, c). of an experimental verification of the standard model In November 1974, the J/A particle was of particle physics. discovered at Brookhaven National Laboratory The standard model was known to have its own (BNL) and at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center limitation, namely: i) it does not have the gravity (SLAC). Soon afterwards the J/A was confirmed to interaction, ii) it has a charge quantization problem, be a ground-state charmonium, which is a meson iii) too many parameters, iv) a hierarchy problem, composed of c and c (anti-particle of c quark). The v) a generation problem, vi) no solutions to dark other charmonium states as well as the open charm matter, dark energy, and baryon asymmetry in the states (both charmed mesons and charmed baryons) universe, and so on. These necessitate a new theory were discovered one after another, so that the which includes the standard model. apparent flaw of the standard model framework had There are a number of theories which can solve been removed. Hence, the discovery of J/A was called some of these problems. Some of the candidates are: the “November Revolution”, and it was the beginning theories with supersymmetry, quark/lepton substruc- of an experimental verification of the standard model tures, technicolor models, quantum gravity theories, of particle physics. etc. During the course of experimentally verifying In 1975 the = lepton was discovered at SLAC, the standard model of particle physics, especially the and in 1977 the particle (the ground-state supersymmetry theories and the technicolor theories, bottomonium bb ) was discovered at Fermi National these came up as the main candidate theories just Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), which strongly beyond the standard model. In this article some of indicated the existence of 3-rd generation fermions. the searches for new physics beyond the standard The International Center for Elementary Par- model are also presented, with emphasis on these ticle Physics (ICEPP) was established in 1974 at the two types of theories. The details of these theories University of Tokyo in order to participate in the are briefly described in the relevant sections of this DASP experiment using the DORIS accelerator at article. Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron (DESY). DORIS D ! 2. PETRA period (1978–) is a positron-electron (e e ) collider of whichpffiffiffi the maximum center-of-mass (c.m.) energy ( s) was The PETRA (Positronen-Electronen Tandem 11.2 GeV. The ICEPP team made an essential Ring Anlage) eDe! collider was constructed at contribution to the discovery of the Pc particle, one DESY, and started operation in 1978. By thep endffiffiffi of the charmonium states. of 1979, it provided eDe! collisions between s ¼ No. 5] Experimental verification of the standard model of particle physics 213
Fig. 1. Sectional view of the JADE detector.
12 GeV and 31.6 GeV, which gave rise to many New flavor quark pair production in eDe! important results. PETRA continued working until collisions should enhance the multihadronic event 1986, and its attained highest collision energy was rate, so that the search was made through measure- 46.8 GeV. ments of the R value: There were 4 experiments at PETRA: JADE, ðeþe ! hadronsÞ Mark J, TASSO and PLUTO (which was replaced by R ¼ : ½1 ðeþe ! þ Þ CELLO from 1980). A sectional view of the JADE P 3 2 detector is shown in Fig. 1. The ICEPP team was It is equal to i qi in the simple quark model, involved in the JADE experiment, and contributed where qi is the charge (in the unit of e) of the quark i, to the construction and operation of the electro- and the factor 3 comes from the number of quark magnetic shower calorimeter, which consisted of 2520 colors. The results were consistent with the produc- lead glass counters in the barrel part, and 192 lead tion of the known 5 quarks (u, d, s, c, b), and there glass counters on the two end caps of the detector. was no sign of any excess concerning the R values. 2.1. Top quark search. One of the main All 4 experiments made another more sensitive objectives of the PETRA experiments was to find the search for the top quark, by looking into the event top quark (t). Many theorists predicted the t quark shape of the multihadronic events. Just above the mass to be at around 13.5 GeV, mainly from the fact production threshold of a new heavy quark pair, its that the masses of s, c, b quarks are 90.5 GeV, event shape was supposed to be spherical, while the 91.5 GeV, 94.5 GeV, respectively. The first results lighter quark pair productions would give 2-jet-like concerning the t quark search using the data taken event shapes. until 1979 were given by MARK J,2) PLUTO,3) There were a number of event shape variables JADE,4),5) and TASSO.6) used in the analyses, such as the thrust (T), 214 T. KOBAYASHI [Vol. 97,
pffiffiffi ! / 3 Fig. 2. Distribution of the eigenvalues Q1,pQffiffiffi2, Q3 of the sphericity tensor. Q1 is plotted versus (Q3 Q2) . (a) Data from all energies combined and (b) model prediction at s ¼ 30 GeV including top quark (mt F 14 GeV) production. The dashed lines show the cuts Q1 > 0.075 and sphericity S > 0.55.
sphericity (S), spherocity (SB), etc., which were and the sphericity axis is given by the principal axis defined as follows: of the momentum ellipsoid corresponding to the "#X eigenvalue Q3. jpikj T ¼ max X ; ½2 Figure 2(a) is a Dalitz plot (named the “Q-plot”) 5) pi used by the JADE experiment, where the perpen- "#X dicularpffiffiffi sides of the triangle are Q1 and (Q3 ! Q2)/ p2 ¼ min X i? ½3 3, so that the hypotenuse is the sphericity, Sp.ffiffiffi Each S 2 ; pi event from the various c.m. energies ( s)is "#X represented by a point in the plot. While the 2 4 pi? spherical events expected from the top quark S0 ¼ min X : ½4 production would give a wide distribution in the pi plot, no significant accumulation of the events was Here, pik and pi? are the longitudinal and transverse observed in the upper part of the triangle. momenta of the hadron (i) relative to the jet axis, As a comparison, the results of a model which is determined by varying the direction of this calculation are shown in Fig. 2(b). This model is axis for each event. based on the quark-antiquark pair, qq (q F u, d, s, The sphericity value can also be obtained by c, b, t), productions, assuming that the top quark diagonalizing the sphericity tensor, decays through the chain t ! b ! c ! s, and on the X cascade mechanism from the quark fragmentation pi pi into hadrons. The top quark mass (mt) was fixed to ¼ iX ½5 T 2 ; 14 GeV, and the c.m. energy to 30 GeV in the Monte- pi Carlo simulation. The normalization for the number i of events was based on the accumulated luminosity. where pi, is the ,-component (, F x, y, z) of the In order to draw quantitative results, the observed momentum of the i-th particle. From the resulting and expected events in the regions S > 0.55 and eigenvalues, Q1, Q2, Q3 (Q1 < Q2 < Q3, Q1 D Q2 D Q1 > 0.075 were compared. A Monte-Carlo simula- Q3 F 1), the sphericity value is calculated accord- tion without top quark production yields no events ingly to in this region. 3 In conclusion, no evidence was observed con- ¼ ð þ Þ ½6 S 2 Q1 Q2 ; cerning the production of a top quark with mt between 11 and 14 GeV. Similar results were also No. 5] Experimental verification of the standard model of particle physics 215
Fig. 3. Values of R F <(eDe! ! hadrons)/<(eDe! ! 7D7!)asa function of c.m. energy W. The results from JADE and TASSO data are summed. obtained by Mark J,2) PLUTO3) and TASSO6) using various event shape variables. Similar to the existence of J/A and for c and b quarks, respectively, the models of heavy quarkonia predict the tt bound states to lie below the threshold for the tt continuum. The experiments at PETRA made fine energy scans to search for the narrow states at around the 30 GeV c.m. energy region, and at later stages up to the highest energies at PETRA. Figure 3 shows the energy scan results made by JADE and TASSO at around the 30 GeV energy region, where the R values (Eq. [1]) are plotted as a function of the 7) c.m. energies. No significant structure waspffiffiffi seen. PETRA increased the energy up to s ¼ 46:8 GeV, and searched for the tt narrow resonance, but the results were negative.8)–10) The top-quark search was then taken over by AMY, TOPAZ and VENUS experiments using the eDe! collider TRISTAN at the National Laboratory for High Energy Physics pffiffiffi in Japan (KEK),pffiffiffi of which the maximum attained Fig. 4. “Q-plot” (described in the text) for (a) data at s ¼ 27:7 energy was s ¼ 64 GeV. The obtained result was and 30.0 GeV, (b) qq model prediction, (c) qqg model prediction. ! excluding the top quark with a mass below The planarity (Q2 Q1) axis is orthogonal to the sphericity axis. F 930 GeV.11)–13) The dotted line indicates planarity 0.07. 2.2. Discovery of the gluon. The most important result from the PETRA experiments was 14) discovering the gluon, the carrier of the strong force. 3p:0ffiffiffi7:4 GeV) of SLAC, and by PLUTO at DORIS Quark-parton models predicted the two-jet ( s ¼ 3:19:5 GeV) of DESY,15) using the sphericity structure in multihadron production in the eDe! distributions. annihilation reaction at higher energies, which was The QCD theory of strong interactions predicts expected from the process eDe! ! qq , with a sub- a specific type of event structure deviating from the sequent fragmentation of the quarks in to hadrons. two-jet structure due to the gluon bremsstrahlung D ! This phenomenon had been clearly observedpffiffiffi by process, e e ! qqg . This implicates that the data experiments at the SPEAR eDe! storage ring ( s ¼ should contain events with planar or three-jet 216 T. KOBAYASHI [Vol. 97,
16) configurations. JADE looked intop theffiffiffi Q-plot. Figure 4(a) shows the data at s ¼ 27:7 and 30.0 GeV, which can be compared with the qq model prediction, Fig. 4(b), and the qqg model prediction, Fig. 4(c). The transverse momentum (q?) of secon- dary quarks in the hadron-jet cascade is described by 2 exp 2 2 2 < d =d q? q?= q , where q was set to the standard value of 250 MeV. A significant deviation from the two-jet model is apparent. To see this difference more clearly, projecting the Q-plot onto the planarity (Q2 ! Q1) axis, which is orthogonal to the sphericity axis, was taken. In Fig. 4, the dotted line indicates a planarity of 0.07. Figure 5 shows the planarity distribution compared with the model predictions. These data show a substantial excess of events in the high planarity region over the qq model with