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Z Resonance: Cross Section Calculation

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PHYS-416: Particle physics II

This course aims to make students familiar and comfortable with the main concepts of particle physics, providing a clear connection between the theory and relevant experimental results, including the most recent ones from modern particle physics experiment ...

Description

This lecture covers the calculation of the cross section for Z resonance in ete + 2 + utui interactions. It explains the Feynman rules for the relevant diagram, the vertex and propagator terms, and the use of helicity states. The lecture also discusses the Z boson decay rates, the Breit-Wigner resonance, and the forward-backward asymmetry in the differential cross section. Additionally, it explores the measurements of the Z line shape, the determination of the weak mixing angle, and precision tests of the standard model. The lecture concludes with insights into W+W- production, the W boson mass and width measurements, and the top quark properties.

Instructor

Lesya Shchutska

Current Work Our research is focused on testing the boundaries of the Standard Model of particle physics and on looking for new phenomena which might explain unanswered puzzles in the fundamental description of the Universe. The examples of such puzzles would be dark matter nature, matter-antimatter asymmetry of the Universe or very small but non-zero neutrino masses.The main instrument for these tasks is the LHCb detector at CERN, where the analyses of the data collected in the LHC proton-proton collisions

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