4. The Strong Force Flashcards

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What is strong charge?

A

Colour

- RGB

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What is the strong force boson, and state its properties

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Gluon

  • Massless, spin 1
  • Bicoloured (colour anti colour), can never be a colourless gluon
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What is conserved by the strong interaction?

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Colour
C, P, T
CP, CPT

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Can gluons interact with other gluons?

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Yes as they carry colour charge

- Tri-linear and quartic coupling

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Which mesons can’t decay into a single gluon?

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Mesons of the same particle antiparticle pair e.g. r r bar

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How does the strong coupling factor evolve with relation to Q^2?

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The opposite way to EM coupling
- Goes to 0 as Q^2 goes to infinity (same as distance going to 0)
- Goes to inf as Q^2 goes to 0(same as distance going to inf)
As distance gets big, force gets big and vv

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Why does the strong coupling evolve in the opposite way to the EM force?

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Due to colour screening

  • Gluons experience screening effects due to gluon-gluon interactions
  • Experience gluon anti-screening
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What is gluon anti-screening?

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The screening due to gluon-gluon interactions

- Gluon loops increase colour charge at large distances

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How does the coupling effect quarks and gluons at SMALL distances?

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V_QCD ~ alpha_s / r
- alpha_s is ~ r at small distances
= Force ~ 0
- Quarks and gluons are quasi-free (don’t really interact with each other) - ASYMPTOTIC FREEDOM

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How does the coupling effect quarks and gluons at LARGE distances?

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V_QCD ~ Kr

- Force is a constant and indep. of dist.

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What is hadronisation?

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The snapping of the colour field when lots of energy is put into separating two quarks
- Two new particles are created

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What is confinement?

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The observation that quarks are never observed by themselves in the universe

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How does the value of the strong coupling change over distance?

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Small distances: alpha_s < 1

Large distances: alpha_s > 1

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What is the OZI rule?

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In a strong interaction diagram, if you can split it into two pieces only by cutting gluon lines, the diagram is surpressed

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For a decay, if the how does the coupling factor of the strong force change if the gluon carries a lot or a little of the total momentum?

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Large when the gluons carry a small amount of mom.

Small when the gluons carry a large amount of mom.

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What is the eightfold path?

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The observation that particles could be arranged in patterns that reflected underlying structures

17
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What are the R ratioes?

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Ratioes of cross section

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How does R change?

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It is a constant dependent on sqrt(S)

- Changes in jumps as the energy thresholds increase

19
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How do the prediction energy ranges predict new quarks?

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There is an existence of a new q qbar final state when a quark mass threshold is passed

20
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What is the R number sensitive to?

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The number of colours and the number of quark charges

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How does the graph of dσ/dQ^2 look for an indivisible target, and one that has structure?

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Indivisible: Negative straight line with some positive intercept for both axis
Structure: Initial negative straight line that tails off on the x axis for for larger Q^2

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Why does the shape of a dσ/dQ^2 graph tail off for high Q^2?

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High Q^2 means small de Broglie wavelength

- Can scatter of constituents

23
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What is x_Bj?

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The fraction, x, of the proton momentum in the deep inelastic scattering

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What does x_Bj look like in deep inelastic scattering if we predict the proton is indivisible, or composed of N non-interacting particles?

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Spikes at 1 for the indivisible proton

Spike at 1/N for the N non interacting constituents

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What does x_Bj look like in deep inelastic scattering if we predict the proton is composed on N interacting constituents?
Narrow bell curve centered about 1/N
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What does the x_Bj look like in reality and why?
Exponential decay with a bump at 1/N - Bell curve if a photon hits a stable constituent - Exponential type decay if the photon hits a loop particle in the quark/gluon sea
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What do we call the stable constituents in a proton?
Valence quarks
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What are the 3 pieces of evidence for the evidence of colour?
1. R ratio 2. pi-0 decay into 2 photons 3. Corner states in the eight fold path
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Why do the corner states in the eightfold path show evidence for colour?
If we just have the eigenstates of flavour, spin and spatial, the corner states would have symmetric wavefunctions. - They are fermions so they must have antisymmetric wavefunctions - The colour allows for the distinguishability