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Chapter 31 Particle Physics Atoms as Elementary Particles Atoms From the Greek for “indivisible” Were once thought to be the elementary particles Atom constituents Proton, neutron, and electron After 1932 these were viewed as elementary All matter was made up of these particles Discovery of New Particles New particles Beginning in 1945, many new particles were discovered in experiments involving high-energy collisions Characteristically unstable with short lifetimes Over 300 have been cataloged A pattern was needed to understand all these new particles Elementary Particles – Quarks Physicists recognize that most particles are made up of quarks Exceptions include photons, electrons and a few others The quark model has reduced the array of particles to a manageable few Protons and neutrons are not truly elementary, but are systems of tightly bound quarks Fundamental Forces All particles in nature are subject to four fundamental forces Strong force Electromagnetic force Weak force Gravitational force This list is in order of decreasing strength Nuclear Force Holds nucleons together Strongest of all the fundamental forces Very short-ranged Less than 10-15 m Negligible for separations greater than this Electromagnetic Force Is responsible for the binding of atoms and molecules About 10-2 times the strength of the nuclear force A long-range force that decreases in strength as the inverse square of the separation between interacting particles Weak Force Is responsible for instability in certain nuclei Is responsible for decay processes Its strength is about 10-5 times that of the strong force Scientists now believe the weak and electromagnetic forces are two manifestions of a single interaction, the electroweak force Gravitational Force A familiar force that holds the planets, stars and galaxies together Its effect on elementary particles is negligible A long-range force It is about 10-41 times the strength of the nuclear force Weakest of the four fundamental forces Explanation of Forces Forces between particles are often described in terms of the actions of field particles or exchange particles The force is mediated, or carried, by the field particles Forces and Mediating Particles Paul Adrian Maurice Dirac 1902 – 1984 Understanding of antimatter Unification of quantum mechanics and relativity Contributions of quantum physics and cosmology Nobel Prize in 1933 Antiparticles Every particle has a corresponding antiparticle An antiparticle has the same mass as the particle, but the opposite charge The positron (electron’s antiparticle) was discovered by Anderson in 1932 From Dirac’s version of quantum mechanics that incorporated special relativity Since then, it has been observed in numerous experiments Practically every known elementary particle has a distinct antiparticle Among the exceptions are the photon and the neutral pi particles Dirac’s Explanation The solutions to the relativistic quantum mechanic equations required negative energy states Dirac postulated that all negative energy states were filled These electrons are collectively called the Dirac sea Electrons in the Dirac sea are not directly observable because the exclusion principle does not let them react to external forces Dirac’s Explanation, cont An interaction may cause the electron to be excited to a positive energy state This would leave behind a hole in the Dirac sea The hole can react to external forces and is observable Dirac’s Explanation, final The hole reacts in a way similar to the electron, except that it has a positive charge The hole is the antiparticle of the electron The electron’s antiparticle is now called a positron Pair Production A common source of positrons is pair production A gamma-ray photon with sufficient energy interacts with a nucleus and an electron-positron pair is created from the photon The photon must have a minimum energy equal to 2mec2 to create the pair Pair Production, cont A photograph of pair production produced by 300 MeV gamma rays striking a lead sheet The minimum energy to create the pair is 1.022 MeV The excess energy appears as kinetic energy of the two particles Annihilation The reverse of pair production can also occur Under the proper conditions, an electron and a positron can annihilate each other to produce two gamma ray photons e- + e+ Antimatter, final In 1955 a team produced antiprotons and antineutrons This established the certainty of the existence of antiparticles Every particle has a corresponding antiparticle with equal mass and spin equal magnitude and opposite sign of charge, magnetic moment and strangeness The neutral photon, pion and eta are their own antiparticles Hideki Yukawa 1907 – 1981 Nobel Prize in 1949 for predicting the existence of mesons Developed the first theory to explain the nature of the nuclear force Mesons Developed from a theory to explain the nuclear force Yukawa used the idea of forces being mediated by particles to explain the nuclear force A new particle was introduced whose exchange between nucleons causes the nuclear force It was called a meson Mesons, cont The proposed particle would have a mass about 200 times that of the electron Efforts to establish the existence of the particle were made by studying cosmic rays in the late 1930’s Actually discovered multiple particles Pi meson (pion) Muon Not a meson Pion There are three varieties of pions + and 0 Mass of 139.6 MeV/c2 Mass of 135.0 MeV/c2 Pions are very unstable For example, the - decays into a muon and an antineutrino with a lifetime of about 2.6 x10-8 s Muons Two muons exist µ- and its antiparticle µ+ The muon is unstable It has a mean lifetime of 2.2 µs It decays into an electron, a neutrino, and an antineutrino Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988 Developed quantum electrodynamics Shared the Noble Prize in 1965 Worked on Challenger investigation and demonstrated the effects of cold temperatures on the rubber O-rings used Feynman Diagrams A graphical representation of the interaction between two particles Feynman diagrams are named for Richard Feynman who developed them A Feynman diagram is a qualitative graph of time on the vertical axis and space on the horizontal axis Actual values of time and space are not important The actual paths of the particles are not shown Feynman Diagram – Two Electrons The photon is the field particle that mediates the interaction The photon transfers energy and momentum from one electron to the other The photon is called a virtual photon It can never be detected directly because it is absorbed by the second electron very shortly after being emitted by the first electron The Virtual Photon The existence of the virtual photon seems to violate the law of conservation of energy But, due to the uncertainty principle and its very short lifetime, the photon’s excess energy is less than the uncertainty in its energy The virtual photon can exist for short time intervals, such that ΔE / 2Δt Feynman Diagram – Proton and Neutron (Yukawa’s Model) The exchange is via the nuclear force The existence of the pion is allowed in spite of conservation of energy if this energy is surrendered in a short enough time Analysis predicts the rest energy of the pion to be 100 MeV / c2 This is in close agreement with experimental results Nucleon Interaction – More About Yukawa’s Model The time interval required for the pion to transfer from one nucleon to the other is Dt 2DER 2m c The distance the pion could travel is cDt Using these pieces of information, the rest energy of the pion is about 100 MeV 2 Nucleon Interaction, final This concept says that a system of two nucleons can change into two nucleons plus a pion as long as it returns to its original state in a very short time interval It is often said that the nucleon undergoes fluctuations as it emits and absorbs field particles These fluctuations are a consequence of quantum mechanics and special relativity Nuclear Force The interactions previously described used the pion as the particles that mediate the nuclear force Current understanding indicate that the nuclear force is more fundamentally described as an average or residual effect of the force between quarks Feynman Diagram – Weak Interaction An electron and a neutrino are interacting via the weak force The Z0 is the mediating particle The weak force can also be mediated by the W The W and Z0 were discovered in 1983 at CERN Classification of Particles Two broad categories Classified by interactions Hadrons – interact through strong force Leptons – interact through weak force Note on terminology The strong force is reserved for the force between quarks The nuclear force is reserved for the force between nucleons The nuclear force is a secondary result of the strong force Hadrons Interact through the strong force Two subclasses distinguished by masses and spins Mesons Baryons Decay finally into electrons, positrons, neutrinos and photons Integer spins (0 or 1) Masses equal to or greater than a proton Half integer spin values (1/2 or 3/2) Decay into end products that include a proton (except for the proton) Not elementary, but composed of quarks Leptons Do not interact through strong force Do participate in electromagnetic (if charged) and weak interactions All have spin of ½ Leptons appear truly elementary No substructure Point-like particles Leptons, cont Scientists currently believe only six leptons exist, along with their antiparticles Electron and electron neutrino Muon and its neutrino Tau and its neutrino Neutrinos may have a small, but nonzero, mass Conservation Laws A number of conservation laws are important in the study of elementary particles Already have seen conservation of Energy Linear momentum Angular momentum Electric charge Two additional laws are Conservation of Baryon Number Conservation of Lepton Number Conservation of Baryon Number Whenever a baryon is created in a reaction or a decay, an antibaryon is also created B is the Baryon Number B = +1 for baryons B = -1 for antibaryons B = 0 for all other particles Conservation of Baryon Number states: the sum of the baryon numbers before a reaction or a decay must equal the sum of baryon numbers after the process Conservation of Baryon Number and Proton Stability There is a debate over whether the proton decays or not If baryon number is absolutely conserved, the proton cannot decay Some recent theories predict the proton is unstable and so baryon number would not be absolutely conserved For now, we can say that the proton has a half-life of at least 1033 years Conservation of Baryon Number, Example Is baryon number conserved in the following reaction? p n p p n p Baryon numbers: Before: 1 + 1 = 2 After: 1 + 1 + 1 + (-1) = 2 Baryon number is conserved The reaction can occur as long as energy is conserved Conservation of Lepton Number There are three conservation laws, one for each variety of lepton Law of Conservation of Electron-Lepton Number states that the sum of electronlepton numbers before the process must equal the sum of the electronlepton number after the process The process can be a reaction or a decay Conservation of Lepton Number, cont Assigning electron-lepton numbers Le = 1 for the electron and the electron neutrino Le = -1 for the positron and the electron antineutrino Le = 0 for all other particles Similarly, when a process involves muons, muon-lepton number must be conserved and when a process involves tau particles, taulepton numbers must be conserved Muon- and tau-lepton numbers are assigned similarly to electron-lepton numbers Conservation of Lepton Number, Example Is lepton number conserved in the following reaction? e e Check electron lepton numbers: Before: Le = 0 After: Le = 1 + (-1) + 0 = 0 Electron lepton number is conserved Check muon lepton numbers: Before: Lµ = 1 After: Lµ = 0 + 0 + 1 = 1 Muon lepton number is conserved Strange Particles Some particles discovered in the 1950’s were found to exhibit unusual properties in their production and decay and were given the name strange particles Peculiar features include Always produced in pairs Although produced by the strong interaction, they do not decay into particles that interact via the strong interaction, but instead into particles that interact via weak interactions They decay much more slowly than particles decaying via strong interactions Strangeness To explain these unusual properties, a new quantum number, S, called strangeness, was introduced A new law, the conservation of strangeness, was also needed It states that whenever a reaction or decay occurs via the strong force, the sum of strangeness numbers before the process must equal the sum of the strangeness numbers after the process Strong and electromagnetic interactions obey the law of conservation of strangeness, but the weak interaction does not Bubble Chamber Example of Strange Particles The dashed lines represent neutral particles At the bottom, - + p Λ0 + K0 Then Λ0 - + p and K 0 0 + µ- + Creating Particles Most elementary particles are unstable and are created in nature only rarely, in cosmic ray showers In the laboratory, great numbers of particles can be created in controlled collisions between high-energy particles and a suitable target Measuring Properties of Particles A magnetic field causes the charged particles to curve This allows measurement of their charge and linear momentum If the mass and momentum of the incident particle are known, the product particles’ mass, kinetic energy, and speed can usually be calculated The particle’s lifetime can be calculated from the length of its track and its speed Resonance Particles Short-lived particles are known as resonance particles They exist for times around 10-20 s In the lab, times for around 10-16 s can be detected They cannot be detected directly Their properties can be inferred from data on their decay products Murray Gell-Mann 1929 – Studies dealing with subatomic particles Named quarks Developed pattern known as eightfold way Nobel Prize in 1969 The Eightfold Way Many classification schemes have been proposed to group particles into families The eightfold way is a symmetric pattern proposed by Gell-Mann and Ne’eman These schemes are based on spin, baryon number, strangeness, etc. There are many symmetrical patterns that can be developed The patterns of the eightfold way have much in common with the periodic table Including predicting missing particles An Eightfold Way for Baryons A hexagonal pattern for the eight spin ½ baryons Stangeness vs. charge is plotted on a sloping coordinate system Six of the baryons form a hexagon with the other two particles at its center An Eightfold Way for Mesons The mesons with spins of 0 can be plotted Strangeness vs. charge on a sloping coordinate system is plotted A hexagonal pattern emerges The particles and their antiparticles are on opposite sides on the perimeter of the hexagon The remaining three mesons are at the center Eightfold Way for Spin 3/2 Baryons The nine particles known at the time were arranged as shown An empty spot occurred Gell-Mann predicted the missing particle and its properties About three years later, the particle was found and all its predicted properties were confirmed Quarks Hadrons are complex particles with size and structure Hadrons decay into other hadrons There are many different hadrons Quarks are proposed as the elementary particles that constitute the hadrons Originally proposed independently by Gell-Mann and Zweig Original Quark Model Three types or flavors Associated with each quark is an antiquark The antiquark has opposite charge, baryon number and strangeness Quarks have fractional electrical charges u – up d – down s – strange +1/3 e and –2/3 e Quarks are fermions Half-integral spins Original Quark Model – Rules All the hadrons at the time of the original proposal were explained by three rules Mesons consist of one quark and one antiquark This gives them a baryon number of 0 Baryons consist of three quarks Antibaryons consist of three antiquarks Quark Composition of Particles – Examples Mesons are quarkantiquark pairs Baryons are quark triplets Additions to the Original Quark Model – Charm Another quark was needed to account for some discrepancies between predictions of the model and experimental results A new quantum number, C, was assigned to the property of charm Charm would be conserved in strong and electromagnetic interactions, but not in weak interactions In 1974, a new meson, the J/Ψ was discovered that was shown to be a charm quark and charm antiquark pair More Additions – Top and Bottom Discovery led to the need for a more elaborate quark model This need led to the proposal of two new quarks t – top (or truth) b – bottom (or beauty) Added quantum numbers of topness and bottomness Verification b quark was found in a Y- meson in 1977 t quark was found in 1995 at Fermilab Numbers of Particles At the present, physicists believe the “building blocks” of matter are complete Six quarks with their antiparticles Six leptons with their antiparticles Particle Properties More About Quarks No isolated quark has ever been observed It is believed that at ordinary temperatures, quarks are permanently confined inside ordinary particles due to the strong force Current efforts are underway to form a quark-gluon plasma where quarks would be freed from neutrons and protons Color It was noted that certain particles had quark compositions that violated the exclusion principle Quarks are fermions, with half-integer spins and so should obey the exclusion principle The explanation is an additional property called the color charge The color has nothing to do with the visual sensation from light, it is simply a name Colored Quarks Color “charge” occurs in red, blue, or green Antiquarks have colors of antired, antiblue, or antigreen These are the quantum “numbers” of color charge Color obeys the Exclusion Principle A combination of quarks of each color produces white (or colorless) Baryons and mesons are always colorless Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) QCD gave a new theory of how quarks interact with each other by means of color charge The strong force between quarks is often called the color force The strong force between quarks is mediated by gluons Gluons are massless particles When a quark emits or absorbs a gluon, its color may change More About Color Charge Particles with like colors repel and those with opposite colors attract Different colors attract, but not as strongly as a color and its anticolor The color force between color-neutral hadrons is negligible at large separations The strong color force between the constituent quarks does not exactly cancel at small separations This residual strong force is the nuclear force that binds the protons and neutrons to form nuclei Quark Structure of a Meson A green quark is attracted to an antigreen quark The quark – antiquark pair forms a meson The resulting meson is colorless Quark Structure of a Baryon Quarks of different colors attract each other The quark triplet forms a baryon Each baryon contains three quarks with three different colors The baryon is colorless QCD Explanation of a Neutron-Proton Interaction Each quark within the proton and neutron is continually emitting and absorbing gluons The energy of the gluon can result in the creation of quarkantiquark pairs When close enough, these gluons and quarks can be exchanged, producing the strong force Elementary Particles – A Current View Scientists now believe there are three classifications of truly elementary particles Leptons Quarks Field particles These three particles are further classified as fermions or bosons Quarks and leptons are fermions Field particles are bosons Weak Force The weak force is believed to be mediated by the W+, W-, and Z0 bosons These particles are said to have weak charge Therefore, each elementary particle can have Mass Electric charge Color charge Weak charge One or more of these charges may be zero Electroweak Theory The electroweak theory unifies electromagnetic and weak interactions The theory postulates that the weak and electromagnetic interactions have the same strength when the particles involved have very high energies Viewed as two different manifestations of a single unifying electroweak interaction The Standard Model A combination of the electroweak theory and QCD for the strong interaction form the standard model Essential ingredients of the standard model The strong force, mediated by gluons, holds the quarks together to form composite particles Leptons participate only in electromagnetic and weak interactions The electromagnetic force is mediated by photons The weak force is mediated by W and Z bosons The standard model does not yet include the gravitational force The Standard Model – Chart Mediator Masses Why does the photon have no mass while the W and Z bosons do have mass? Not answered by the Standard Model The difference in behavior between low and high energies is called symmetry breaking The Higgs boson has been proposed to account for the masses Large colliders are necessary to achieve the energy needed to find the Higgs boson In a collider, particles with equal masses and equal kinetic energies, traveling in opposite directions, collide head-on to produce the required reaction Particle Paths After a Collision The Big Bang This theory states that the universe had a beginning, and that it was so cataclysmic that it is impossible to look back beyond it Also, during the first few minutes after the creation of the universe all four interactions were unified All matter was contained in a quark-gluon plasma As time increased and temperature decreased, the forces broke apart A Brief History of the Universe Hubble’s Law The Big Bang theory predicts that the universe is expanding Hubble claimed the whole universe is expanding Furthermore, the speeds at which galaxies are receding from the earth is directly proportional to their distance from us This is called Hubble’s Law Hubble’s Law, cont Hubble’s Law can be written as v = H R H is called Hubble’s constant H 17 x 10-3 m / s ly Remaining Questions About The Universe Will the universe expand forever? Today, astronomers are trying to determine the rate of expansion The universe seems to be expanding more slowly than 1 billion years ago It depends on the average mass density of the universe compared to a critical density The critical density is about 3 atoms / m3 If the actual density is less than the critical density, the expansion will slow, but still continue If the actual density is more than the critical density, expansion will stop and contraction will begin More Questions Missing mass in the universe The amount of non-luminous (dark) matter seems to be much greater than what we can see Various particles have been proposed to make up this dark matter Exotic particles such as axions, photinos and superstring particles have been suggested Neutrinos have also been suggested It is important to determine the mass of the neutrino since it will affect predictions about the future of the universe Another Question Is there mysterious energy in the universe? Observations have led to the idea that the expansion of the universe is accelerating To explain this acceleration, dark energy has been proposed It is energy possessed by the vacuum of space The dark energy results in an effective repulsive force that causes the expansion rate to increase