大型强子对撞机上的CMS探测器

CMS探测器是大型强子对撞机（LHC）上的4个实验之一,它的设计思想是在质心能量为14TeV及积分亮度为1034 cm-2s-1的条件下对质子-质子对撞进行研究.它的特点是非常紧凑,其μ子室几乎覆盖了4π立体角.另外,CMS探测器还有可提供超强磁场的超导磁铁和由超导磁铁环绕的径迹室以及电磁量能器和强子量能器.CMS探测器对于末态为电子、光子、特别是μ子的物理过程有很好的测量精度.     

Supermodels for early LHC

We investigate which new physics signatures could be discovered in the first year of the LHC, beyond the expected sensitivity of the Tevatron data by the end of 2010. We construct “supermodels”, for which the LHC sensitivity even with only 10 pb⁻¹ useful luminosity is greater than that of the Tevatron with 10 fb⁻¹. The simplest supermodels involve s  -channel resonances in the quark–antiquark and especially in the quark–quark channels. We concentrate on easily visible final states with small standard model backgrounds, and find that there are simple searches, besides those for Z^′$Z^{\prime }$ states, which could discover new physics in early LHC data. Many of these are well-suited to test searches for “more conventional” models, often discussed for multi-fb⁻¹ data sets.     

Heavy flavour physics at the LHC

A summary of results in heavy flavour physics from Run 1 of the LHC is presented. Topics discussed include spectroscopy, mixing, CP violation and rare decays of charmed and beauty hadrons.     

Inflation,LHC and the Higgs boson

After the Higgs boson has been discovered, the Standard Model of particle physics became a confirmed theory, potentially valid up to the Planck scale and allowing one to trace the evolution of the Universe from the inflationary stage till the present days. We discuss the relation between the results from the LHC and the inflationary cosmology. We overview the Higgs inflation, and its relation to the possible metastability of the electroweak vacuum. A short overview of the bounds on the metastability of the electroweak vacuum in the models with inflation not related to the Higgs boson is presented.     

大型强子对撞机上的实验进展

大型强子对撞机的成功建成,使人类对微观世界的探索深入到了10^-18 m这样一个全新的领域。文章介绍大型强子对撞机上实验的最新进展。     

Exclusion of black hole disaster scenarios at the LHC

The upcoming high energy experiments at the LHC are one of the most outstanding efforts for a better understanding of nature. It is associated with great hopes in the physics community. But there is also some fear in the public, that the conjectured production of mini black holes might lead to a dangerous chain reaction. In this Letter we summarize the most straightforward arguments that are necessary to rule out such doomsday scenarios.     

Chargino-Pair Productions via Drell-Yan Process at the LHC

We present the analytical and numerical investigations of chargino-pair productions via Drell-Yan process a t proton-proton collider in the frame of minimal supersymmetric extension at tree level. For the χ_i⁺χ_j^-(i,j= 1,2) pair productions at the LHC, the cross section is in the order of 3～2.5 ×10^-3 pb. We find that the cross sections of all kinds of chargino-pair production processes are strongly related to the SUSY Lagrangian parameters M₂ and μ.     

外周天线LHCⅡ的荧光光谱特性

外周天线LHC在光合作用过程中,担负着吸收和传递光能的作用.我们采用扫描成象荧光光谱技术对菠菜中外周天线LHC的荧光光谱特性进行了研究,在514.5nm的激光激励下获取了积分荧光谱,认为从类胡萝卜素分子到叶绿素分子间存在有能量传递.采用高斯组分光谱解析的方法,解析出LHC的荧光发射有七个谱带:656.7、664.6、671.5、677.2、683.5、689.6、695.3nm,各自所占的比例分别为3.0%、13.1%、13.3%、21.1%、13.2%、33.3%、3.0%,其中658.7nm的发射谱是由叶绿素b分子所发射的,其余的发射谱分别是由吸收峰为662、670/671、676、680nm以及吸收大于690nm的叶绿素a分子所发射.3.0%的叶绿素b分子的荧光发射说明在能量平衡过程中绝大部分能量被叶绿素a分子所禁锢,689.6nm处的荧光所占的比例最大,可能与LHC的一种自保护机制有关     

Heavy Higgs bosons at the LHC upgrade

We evaluate the discovery potential for the heavy Higgs bosons at the LHC energy upgrade with \begin{document}$\sqrt{s}=27$\end{document} TeV. We assume the degenerate mass spectrum and an approximate alignment limit in the Type-II Two Higgs Doublet Model for illustration. We explore the observability of the heavy neutral Higgs bosons by examining the clean signals from \begin{document}$H^0\to W^+W^-, ZZ$\end{document} via gluon-gluon fusion production. The associated production of a top quark and a charged Higgs boson via \begin{document}$gb\to t H^\pm$\end{document} is adopted to predict the discovery potential of heavy charged Higgses. We also emphasize the potential importance of the electroweak production of Higgs boson pairs, i.e. \begin{document}$pp\to W^\ast \to H^\pm A^0$\end{document} and \begin{document}$pp\to Z^\ast/\gamma^\ast \to H^+ H^-$\end{document}. These are only governed by pure electroweak gauge couplings and can provide complementary information to the conventional signals in the determination of the nature of the Higgs sector.     

Single top production associated with a neutral scalar at LHC in topcolor-assisted technicolor

The topcolor-assisted technicolor(TC2)model predicts a number of neutral SCalars like the top-pion (π0t)and the top-Higgs(h0t).These scalar8 have flavor-changing neutral-current(FCNC)top quark couphngs,among which the top-charm transition couplings may be sizable.Such FCNC couplings induce single top productions associated with a neutral scalar at the CERN Large Hadron Collider(LHC)through the parton processes cg→tπ0t and cg→th0t.In this paper we examine these productions and find their production rates can exceed the 3σ sensitivity of the LHC in a large part of parameter space.Since in the Standard Model and the minimal supersymmetric model such rare productions have unobservably small production rates at the LHC.these rare processes will serve as a good probe for the TC2 model.     

Single top production associated with a neutral scalar at LHC in topcolor-assisted technicolor

The topcolor-assisted technicolor (TC2) model predicts a number of neutral scalars like the top-pion (π⁰_t) and the top-Higgs (h⁰_t). These scalars have flavor-changing neutral-current (FCNC) top quark couplings, among which the top-charm transition couplings may be sizable. Such FCNC couplings induce single top productions associated with a neutral scalar at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) through the parton processes cg→t π⁰_t and cg→t h⁰_t. In this paper we examine these productions and find their production rates can exceed the 3σ sensitivity of the LHC in a large part of parameter space. Since in the Standard Model and the minimal supersymmetric model such rare productions have unobservably small production rates at the LHC, these rare processes will serve as a good probe for the TC2 model.     

Naturalness,supersymmetry and implications for LHC and dark matter

It is shown that the Hyperbolic Branch of the radiative electroweak symmetry breaking contains in it three regions: the Focal Point, Focal Curves, and Focal Surfaces. Further, the Focal Point is shown to lie on the boundary of a Focal Curve. These focal regions allow for a small μ while scalar masses can become large and may lie in the several TeV region. It is shown that for the mSUGRA model the current LHC-7 constraint depletes the Focal Point region while regions on Focal Curves and Focal Surfaces remain largely intact. The LHC implications for models which lie on Focal Curves are briefly discussed as well as the implications of dark matter constraints for the Focal Point, Focal Curves and Focal Surfaces are discussed.     

Associated production of Higgs boson and tt at LHC

One of the future goals of the LHC is to precisely measure the properties of the Higgs boson. The associated production of a Higgs boson and top quark pair is a promising process to investigate the related Yukawa interaction and the properties of the Higgs. Compared with the pure scalar sector in the Standard Model, the Higgs sector contains both scalars and pseudoscalars in many new physics models, which makes the ttH interaction more complex and provides a variety of phenomena. To investigate the ttH interaction and the properties of the Higgs, we study the top quark spin correlation observables at the LHC.     

Large hadron collider physics program: Compact muon solenoid experiment

The LHC physics program at CERN addresses some of the fundamental issues in particle physics and CMS experiment would concentrate on them. The CMS detector is designed for the search of Standard Model Higgs boson in the whole possible mass range. Also it will be sensitive to Higgs bosons in the minimal supersymmetric model and well adapted to searches for SUSY particles, new massive vector bosons, CP-violation in B-system, search for subtructure of quarks and leptons, etc. In the LHC heavy ion collisions the energy density would be well above the threshold for the possible formation of quark-gluon plasma.     

On the nuclear modification factor at RHIC and LHC

We show that pQCD factorization incorporated with pre-hadronization energy-loss effect naturally leads to flatness of the nuclear modification factor RAA$R_{\mathit{AA}}$ for produced hadrons at high transverse momentum pT$p_T$. We consider two possible scenarios for the pre-hadronization: In scenario 1, the produced gluon propagates through dense QCD medium and loses energy. In scenario 2, all gluons first decay to quark–antiquark pairs and then each pair loses energy as propagating through the medium. We show that the estimates of the energy-loss in these two different models lead to very close values and is able to explain the suppression of high-pT$p_T$ hadrons in nucleus–nucleus collisions at RHIC. We show that the onset of the flatness of RAA$R_{\mathit{AA}}$ for the produced hadron in central collisions at midrapidity is about pT≈15$p_T\approx 15$ and 25 GeV at RHIC and the LHC energies, respectively. We show that the smallness (RAA<0.5$R_{\mathit{AA}}<0.5$ ) and the high-pT$p_T$ flatness of RAA$R_{\mathit{AA}}$ obtained from the kT$k_T$ factorization supplemented with the Balitsky–Kovchegov (BK) equation is rather generic and it does not strongly depend on the details of the BK solutions. We show that energy-loss effect reduces the nuclear modification factor obtained from the kT$k_T$ factorization about 30–50% at moderate pT$p_T$.