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High Energy Physics Lecture 8 Part 1: Elastic electron-proton scattering Part 2: Deep Inelastic Scattering HEP Lecture 8 1 Part 1: Elastic electron-proton Scattering Kinematical diagram of elastic ep scattering in the LAB frame: k k’ θ z p’ HEP Lecture 8 2 Feynman diagram of elastic electron-muon scattering Electrons and muons are leptons; the electromagnetic interaction is by photon exchange The lepton-photon coupling is point-like Kinematics (units: c=1): e; e; Electron: initial energy and momentum: G ω, k final energy and momentum: ; ; muon: HEP Lecture 8 G ω ', k ' G G E , p; E ', p ' 3 G E 2 = p 2 + m2 4-vector: and similarly for E’, ω and ω’ G p = (E , p) G2 2 2 p = E − p = mμ2 = invariant G2 2 2 k = ω − k = me2 Energy and momentum conservation: G G G G E + ω = E '+ ω '; p + k = p '+ k ' Combine into 4-momentum conservation: p + k = p '+ k ' Photon 4-momentum: q = k − k ' = p '− p HEP Lecture 8 4 Invariant square of the photon 4-momentum: q 2 = ( k − k ') = k 2 + k '2 − 2k ⋅ k ' G G 2 = 2me − 2 ωω '− k ⋅ k ' 2 ( ) But the electron mass is negligibly small, hence G G ω = k ≡ k, ω ' = k ' ≡ k ' q 2 = −2kk ' (1 − cos θ ) < 0 " space − like " The mass of a real photon is zero; a photon with a non-zero mass is called virtual photon. The electromagnetic interaction takes place by the exchange of a virtual photon. HEP Lecture 8 5 Some of the following material is from R.E. Taylor’s Nobel Lecture: HEP Lecture 8 6 Electron-proton elastic scattering: HEP Lecture 8 7 Derivation: G G G G 0 P = M , 0 , P ' = P ' , P ' , p = ( E , p ) , p ' = ( E ', p ') ; ( ) ( ) 4 − momentum conservation: P+p=P'+p' P'2 = M 2 = ( P+p-p ' ) = M 2 + ( p-p ') + 2 M ( E − E ' ) 2 2 but ( p-p ') 2 = 2me2 − 2p ⋅ p ' = −2 EE ' (1 − cos θ ) where in the last step we have neglected the electron mass, hence EE ' (1- cos θ ) = M ( E − E ') and finally E'= E 1 + ( 2 E M ) sin 2 (θ 2 ) HEP Lecture 8 8 Feynman diagram of elastic ep scattering: the proton is of finite size; this is taken into account by form factors: one electric and one magnetic ff HEP Lecture 8 9 Differential cross section of elastic electron-proton scattering (Rosenbluth formula): based on relativistic quantum mechanics The functions GE and GM take account of the size of the proton; they are called form factors GE = GE ( Q 2 ) , GM = GM ( Q 2 ) ; GE ( 0 ) = 1, GM ( 0 ) = μ p Q2 is up to the sign the square of the 4-momentum transfer: τ = Q 2 4m 2p μ p = 2.79 is the proton anomalous magnetic moment HEP Lecture 8 10 From a simpler calculation for a proton without spin (and therefore without magnetic moment) and neglecting the recoil of the proton one finds dσ α2 2θ = ⋅ cos θ 2 d Ω 4 E 2 sin 4 0 2 (Mott cross section) Therefore we can write the Rosenbluth formula in the following form: dσ ⎛ dσ ⎞ E ' ⎡ GE2 + τ GM2 2 2θ ⎤ =⎜ + 2τ GM tan ⎥ ⎟ ⋅ ⎢ 2⎦ d Ω ⎝ d Ω ⎠ Mott E ⎣ 1 + τ HEP Lecture 8 11 The form factors cannot be calculated from first principles. Up to the present time they remain empirical functions, extracted from measured differential cross sections. Strategy: Measure dσ/dΩ at many angles θ and at many values of Q2 , hence extract form factors: HEP Lecture 8 12 Anomalous moment: point-like proton with (anomalous) magnetic moment: GE = 1, GM = μ p = 2.79 HEP Lecture 8 13 Results of 1965 HEP Lecture 8 14 Quotation from Taylor: HEP Lecture 8 15 Results of measuring the proton magnetic form factor (SLAC 1967) HEP Lecture 8 16 HEP Lecture 8 17 Summary of Results on Elastic Electron-Proton Scattering From basic principles of relativistic quantum mechanics, the differential cross section of electron-proton scattering, assuming the proton to be an extended object, is given by the Rosenbluth formula: The form factors dσ ⎛ dσ ⎞ E ' ⎡ GE2 + τ GM2 2 2θ ⎤ =⎜ + 2τ GM tan ⎥ ⎟ ⋅ ⎢ 2⎦ d Ω ⎝ d Ω ⎠ Mott E ⎣ 1 + τ GE = GE ( Q 2 ) , GM = GM ( Q 2 ) ; are empirical functions of the 4-momentum transfer. From experiment one finds −2 ⎛ Q ⎞ = ⎜1 + 2 ⎟ , a 2 = 0.71GeV 2 GE = μp ⎝ a ⎠ GM (dipole formula) 2 HEP Lecture 8 18 These results formed the prejudice that the proton was a soft (“mushy”) extended object, possibly with a hard core surrounded by a cloud of mesons, mainly pions. The SLAC-MIT team saw its objective in searching for the hard core of the proton. This could be done exploiting the higher energy of the electron beam that became available with the commissioning of the 2-mile Linac: E = 20 GeV HEP Lecture 8 19 Linac is the 2 mile Stanford Linear Accelerator Electrons are accelerated up to 20 GeV HEP Lecture 8 20 Energies and momenta of the scattered electrons are measured in spectrometers: hodoscopes are detectors which measure the positions of the passing electrons HEP Lecture 8 21 HEP Lecture 8 22 HEP Lecture 8 23 HEP Lecture 8 24 Part 2; Deep Inelastic Scattering The reaction equation of deep inelastic scattering (DIS) is written e+ p →e+ X where X is a system of outgoing hadrons (mostly pions). Observed is only the scattered electron. The unobserved hadronic system is the missing mass. The energy of the incident electron beam is accurately known The proton is the target particle. In the SLAC experiments (and many later experiments at CERN) the target is at rest in the laboratory. This defines the LAB frame. HEP Lecture 8 25 DIS Kinematics: or, since E’ and θ are measured: W = M + 2 M ( E0 − E ') − 4 E0 E 'sin 2 2 Note: for elastic scattering 2 θ 2 W=M HEP Lecture 8 26 Physical Region of Deep Inelastic Scattering in the (ν,Q2) Plane For the purpose of illustration a LAB energy of 10 GeV has been chosen, appropriate for the early work at SLAC when the parton structure of the nucleon was discovered. The proton mass was set = 1 GeV/c2 ν = E − E' is the energy transfer from the electron to the proton. At ν=E the entire energy is transferred to the proton; at ν=0 no energy is transferred. HEP Lecture 8 27 Feynman diagram of inelastic electron-proton scattering: (from H.W. Kendall, “Deep Inelastic Scattering”, Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1990) HEP Lecture 8 28 Differential Cross Section of Inelastic ep Scattering From relativistic quantum mechanics one gets the following formula: W1,2 = W1,2 ( Q 2 ,ν ) structure functions is the energy transfer. On general grounds the structure functions are functions of two kinematical invariants They were expected to drop with increasing Q2 as rapidly as the form factors (“mushy proton”!) The surprising experimental result was different! HEP Lecture 8 29 W = 3.5 GeV W = 3 GeV W = 2 GeV HEP Lecture 8 30 elastic peak nucleon resonances up to about W = 1.8 GeV there is structure corresponding to the production of resonances (excited nucleon states); there is no structure above 1.8 GeV: this is the region of DIS. HEP Lecture 8 31 Shown here is the electromagnetic structure function νW2(Q2,ν) as a function of Q2 for ω = 2, 3, and 4; the absence of a Q2 dependence is called scaling (ω = 2Mν/Q2). HEP Lecture 8 32 Plotted along the abscissa is the scaling variable x=1/ω which is generally used today in preference to ω. HEP Lecture 8 33 Scaling (Bjorken (1969)): for Q 2 → ∞ and ν → ∞, such that ω = 2Mν / Q 2 is fixed (“Bjorken limit”), the structure functions depend only on ω: 2MW1 ( Q 2 ,ν ) → F1 (ω ) ν W2 ( Q 2 ,ν ) → F2 (ω ) this behaviour is called scaling; ω is the scaling variable HEP Lecture 8 34 Scaling found a natural explanation in the parton model (Feynman). Partons are constituents of the proton (more generally of hadrons). They are point-like fermions like the leptons. But unlike the leptons they take part in strong interactions as well as electromagnetic and weak interactions. (Leptons take part only in electromagnetic and weak interactions) Today the Feynman partons are understood to be identical with the quarks postulated by Gell-Mann. HEP Lecture 8 35 Parton model picture of DIS: HEP Lecture 8 36 The electron collides elastically with a parton that carries a fraction x of the proton momentum. At high momentum (“infinite” momentum) the partons are free. Therefore the collision of one parton with the electron does not affect the other partons. This leads to scaling in x x = 1 ω = Q 2 2 Mν ∈ [ 0,1] DIS experiments have also been done with muons and with neutrinos. Since 1992 DIS experiments are done also on the electron-proton collider HERA. The next slides contains a summery of results of measurements of the proton structure function F2(x) from several experiments: HEP Lecture 8 37 Results on the proton structure function F2 from experiments at CERN, Fermilab and DESY HEP Lecture 8 38 Discussion of the results of measurements of F2(x,Q2): To separate the sets of data at different values of x an offset function C(x) has been added to the data. This has no physical significance. The important physics result lies in the Q2 dependence of the data: at x values above about 0.05 the structure function F2 is seen to be independent of Q2, i.e. to show scaling behaviour. At smaller values of x there is a noticeable, and at very small values of x a strong violation of scaling. Since scaling requires the partons to behave like “free” particles, therefore scaling violation indicates the effect of binding on the partons. This is understood to be the result of the colour force transmitted by gluons. HEP Lecture 8 39