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Electroweak Precision Measurements

and Neutrinos

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Motivation for the precision measurements *and* precision calculations

1. Given that the minimal SM is complete with the Higgs discovery, how do we find out: �-- if the Higgs boson is exactly what is foreseen by the standard model? (🡪 Higgs Factory)�-- where/what are the new physics phenomena that must be present to explain:

baryon asymmetry

dark matter,

neutrino masses (and other mysteries we don’t understand) (🡪 EW/top factory)��2. A powerful and broadly efficient method is to perform precision EW measurements�-- many observables contain sensitivity to new phenomena, either by loops, direct long distance propagator effects, or mixing with SM coupled particles.

🡺 are there any more weakly coupled particles?

The top quark effect at LEP was 10σ! (🡺 there is *not* another t-b quark system)

any custodial SU(2)-violating effect appears regardless of mass scale

-- is there mixing ? in particular active-sterile neutrino mixing

-- high mass SM-coupled and custodial SU(2)-respecting 🡪 (ex: Z’ or degenerate SuSy)

Emphasis on different observables depending on the question asked.

«T»

«S»

«ν»

not to forget:

QCD

Lepton-quark

lepton and quark family

Universality

Veltman: Δρ =ΔT.α=

α/π . (m2top-m2b)/m2W

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Alain Blondel Groupe Neutrino Université de Genève

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NEUTRINOS

The fact that neutrinos have mass is THE observed BSM phenomenon there is in particle physics

It is intimately a Higgs Physics question:

🡺 what are the couplings of the H(125) (Nobel 2013) to massive neutrinos (Nobel 2015)?

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Neutrino masses occur via processes which are intimately related to the Higgs boson

🡺 what are the couplings of the H(125) to neutrinos?

Adding neutrino masses to the Standard model 'simply' by adding a Dirac mass 🡺 right-handed neutrino

mD is the neutrino Yukawa coupling (like for all known massive fermions). Then the right handed neutrinos are perfectly sterile, (except that they couple to both the Higgs boson and gravitation). *🡪

B. Kayser

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L

 

L

 

L

 

 

 

I = 1/2

Q= -1

Q= 0

I = 0

R

R

R

 

 

 

R

R

R

Electroweak eigenstates

Right handed neutrinos

are singlets

no weak interaction

no EM interaction

no strong interaction

can’t produce them

can’t detect them

-- so why bother? –

Also called ‘sterile’

NB unlike for vL , nothing distinguishes the particle and antiparticle of vR which is a singlet (no ‘charge’)

🡪 naturally a Majorana particle

my SM training in 1976

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Neutrino masses occur via processes which are intimately related to the Higgs boson

🡺 what are the couplings of the H(125) to neutrinos?

Adding neutrino masses to the Standard model 'simply' by adding a Dirac mass 🡺 right-handed neutrino

mD is the neutrino Yukawa coupling (like for all known massive fermions). Then the right handed neutrinos are perfectly sterile, (except that they couple to both the Higgs boson and gravitation). *🡪

Then things become more interesting: a Majorana mass term arises. So-called Weinberg Operator (only Dim5 operator in EFT) and involves the Higgs boson and the neutrino Yukawa coupling

Pilar Hernandez,

Granada 2019-05

Majorana mass term is extremely interesting as this is the

particle-to-antiparticle transition that we want

in order to explain

the Baryon asymmetry of the Universe

(+ CP violation in e.g. neutrinos)

MR

B. Kayser

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See-saw type I :

MR ≠ 0

mD ≠ 0

Dirac + Majorana

mass terms

MR = 0

mD ≠ 0

Dirac only, (like e- vs e+):

νL νR νL νR

½ 0 ½ 0

4 states of equal masses

m

Iweak=

Some have I=1/2 (active)

Some have I=0 (sterile)

MR ≠ 0

mD = 0

Majorana only

νL νR

½ ½

2 states of equal masses

m

Iweak=

All have I=1/2 (active)

MR > mD ≠ 0

Dirac + Majorana

ν N ν N

½ 0 ½ 0

4 states , 2 mass levels

m

Iweak=

m1 have ~I=1/2 (~active)

m2 have ~I=0 (~sterile)

see-saw

Mass eigenstates

dominantly:

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Manifestations of right handed neutrinos (HNL)

 

 

 

 

what is produced in W, Z decays is:

-- mixing with active neutrinos leads to various observable consequences in High Energy experiments

If N is not too heavy it will decay in the detector 🡺 POTENTIAL FOR DIRECT DISCOVERY

If it is too heavy to be produced

🡺 PMNS matrix unitarity violation and deficit in Z «invisible» width

🡺 violation of unitarity and lepton universality in Z, W or τ decays

🡺 EW observables that contain neutrinos are modified, GF in particular μ→ e νe νμ

🡺 affect prediction of both {α GF mZ} 🡪 sin2θWeff, mW and all that follows

🡺 tau life time � 🡺 Nv < 3

-- missing neutrino rate is proportional to sin2θmix regardless of HN mass.

Antusch, vdBeij...

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F. Gianotti, �P5 meeting

2023-04-15

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NEUTRINOS -- comments

The impact of the neutrinos having masses is (in the simplest see-saw type I) is either or both

-- a very rare process : e.g. if light neutrino masses are ~50 meV, a HNL of 50 GeV has a mixing of 10-12

  • expect only very few events in an TeraZ exposure of FCC (9 1012 Z produced)

-- or small effects: the experiments today are sensitive at the 10-3level. With the improved measurements at FCC the limits will be improved to 10-5 for νe νμ and, thanks to the tau lifetime measurement, ντ

Mixing angles can be somewhat larger, see S. Antuschs talk, and statistics of up to 106 HNLs cannot be excluded.

Other more complicated schemes can be built to increase the chances of observation (but less ‘natural’)

-- the neutrinos are the only fermions for which the Yukawa coupling is not the mass �The Dirac mass in the case of a 50 GeV HNL is typically 1/10 of the electron mass.

This also implies that the process H🡪vN which proceeds by the Yukawa coupling, is very small

The possibility – albeit small – of such a discovery is an exciting motivation for the TeraZ run of FCC.

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« The Standard Model is complete »

This statement is correct in the following sense, which allows to separate ‘SM’ from ‘BSM’

we should distinguish

A. ‘Theory of particle physics’

based on Quantum Field Theory, relativity, quantum mechanics, principles of Gauge invariance etc... using in particular the SU(3)_color ⊗ SU(2)_L ⊗ U(1) gauge groups or extensions thereof. �In itself it is not necessarily predictive, but provides a wide toolset to include further discoveries.

** definitely not complete**, but completeness is not the point here

and

B. « the Standard Model » which is one possible model witihin the above, with a specific set of constituants (fermions and gauge bosons), their couplings, chiralities and their masses, which are all extracted from experiment

It was created (and named in ~1976) after the discovery of the Neutral Currents (1973), Charm (74/76) and the tau and ντ (77-86)

With the discovery of the Higgs boson, the Standard Model is complete and forms a predictive and quantitative tool.

-- assumes neutrinos are massless

-- comprises 3 families of quarks and leptons and a single, elementary Higgs boson, and as such

contains no free parameter (only parametric uncertainties) ANY DEVIATION from SM is BSM DISCOVERY

-- does not explain in a unique way the neutrino masses or the Baryon Asymetry of the Universe, does not comprise a candidate DM particle, etc... for which we know for sure that BSM is needed.

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POTENTIAL FOR DIRECT DISCOVERY of HEAVY NEUTRINOS

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RH neutrino production in Z decays

multiply by 2 for antineutrino and add contributions of 3 neutrino species (🡺 Σλ=e,μ,τ |Uλ |2 )

Production:

Decay

Decay length:

cm

Backgrounds : four fermion: e+e- 🡪 W*+ W*- e+e- 🡪 Z*(vv) + (Z/γ)*

NB CC decay always leads to

≥ 2 charged tracks

Long life time 🡪 detached vertex for ~<MZ

HNL

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Production of HNL in Z decays

We begin experimentally by assuming HNL production one at a time.

This is an approximation of the more favored situation where two or three almost degenerate HNLs are produced,

possibly generating a phenomenology akin to e.g. KL and KS or (K <->K) system with oscillations and other lifetime effects.

This is extraordinarily interesting ... see S. Antusch

In the simplified, one-N-at-a-time assumption the particle has one mass, one cross-section and one decay width/life time.

and four decay modes N🡪 eW*, μW*, τW* (CC decays) and N🡪 vZ* (NC decay)-- two or more charged tracks except N->vvv

N🡪 λ W*🡪 qq

N🡪 v Z* 🡪 qq

N🡪 λ+λ(‘)- v

N🡪 λ W*🡪λ’v and

N🡪 v Z*🡪 λ λ)

N🡪 ν νν

0.6

0.5

0.4

0.3

0.2

0.1

0.0

BRANCHING

RATIO

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80

HNL Mass (GeV/c2)

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50 GeV HNL with a mixing angle of 10-10, decaying 50cm from the collision point into

N🡪 e- {W*🡪 hadrons}.

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This is the FCC CDR plot – as anticipated the limit stops at the W mass,

when life times get very short due to on-shell W decay.

The horizontal line corresponds to GF effect on EWPOs

Plot by O. Fischer for the FCC-ee CDR with 1012Z

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This picture from the ESPP BB is relevant to Neutrino, Dark sectors and High Energy Frontiers. � FCC-ee (Z) compared to the other machines for right-handed (sterile) neutrinos

How close can we get to the ‘see-saw limit’?

-- the purple line shows the 95% CL limit if no HNL is observed. (here for 1012 Z),

-- the horizontal line represents the sensitivity to mixing of neutrinos to the dark sector,

using EWPOs (GF vs sin2θWeff and mZ, mW, tau decays) which extends sensitivity from 10-3 (now)

to 10-5 (FCC) mixing all the way to very high HNL masses (500-1000 TeV at least). arxiv:2011.04725

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Dirac vs Majorana(I)

It has been emphasized by Matthew Mccullough that there exist ways to create models of Dirac HNL-like particles

and that the discovery of a RHv requires the observation of the Majorana nature of the particle.

In any case Fermion number violation is of the greatest interest.

At a hadron or ep collider the HNL can appear in W decay W(*)🡪 λ+N 🡪 λ± W*+ . The charge of the final vs initial lepton is a test of fermion number violation which arises if HNL are Majorana particles.

At the Z the process Z🡪 Nv does not make it very easy.

Several methods

  1. Forward-backward asymmetry relic of the Z parity violating couplings. Dirac keeps it, Majorana washes it out.

🡺 uses N🡪 λqq decay and requires lepton charge reconstruction.

  1. Polarization (also relic of Z parity violation) of HNL leads to harder lepton spectrum for Dirac than for Majorana

🡺 uses N🡪 λqq and requires lepton momentum reconstruction (but not the charge)

NB analysis sensitive to detail W* mass distribution, esp. for small masse W* (in tau & D mass region and below)

  1. W/Z diagram interference (Petcov) for N🡪 λλv Very elegant but less statistics and less easy

These methods work for the prompt analysis as well as for the LLP analysis within presumably a smaller radius.

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Dirac vs Majorana(II)

in addition the lifetime is reduced by a factor 2 for a Majorana vs Dirac particle

  • At the Z the production cross-section and the decay rate depend on the same combination of mixing angles!

CMD= 1(Dirac), 2(Majorana)

CAVEATs!!

  1. Of course this can only be used if we can measure the lifetime,
  2. and can be falsified if e.g two dirac neutrinos are produced with similar masses in the experiment.

The other methods (polarization and asymmetry) can be always used – 400 events are needed for 2σ separation

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Increasing the detection efficiency with large detectors

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12m high

5m radius,

assume some

muon chambers outside

CLD detector

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HECATE DETECTOR TO FILL THE WHOLE CAVERN

with e.g. RPC or Scintillator modules.

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4 event lines for LLP signature (Exclusion if you do the search and find nothing!) 5 1012 events

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Full legend of previous plot

see Alimena et al,

arXiv:2203.05502v3

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Electroweak precision measurements and neutrinos

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WW at & above threshold

Z scan

αQED, mZ, GF

sin2θeffW

ΔαQED

mtop

S,T,ν, NP

ratios of partial Z widths

Rlept (e,μ,τ)

Rb

Rc

σhad (mZ)

ΓZ

mtop

T,ν, NP

αs

δvb

partial widths, (gA2 +gV2)(f), Nv

asymmetries

from Parity violating couplings

AFBf

P(τ), AFBpol(f)

(initial of final state)

ALR

mW

mtop

S,T, NP

(gV/gA)(f)

ΓW

part. widths

αs Vcs, Vcb

τ

(mass)�BR,

lifetime

αs

Overview of EW relationships and examples of new physics effects

ν

ILC GigaZ long. Pol.�FCC 21011taus

FCC TeraZ

statistics,

precise ECM

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NP Sensitivity by oblique/vertex loops or mixing

  • Higgs + EWPO (+ flavours) are complementary
  • top quark mass and couplings essential

the 91km circumference is broadly optimal for this

  • preliminary systematics (book-keeping)

aim at reducing to the level of statistics

  • many observables still to be added (flavours)
  • complemented by high energy FCC-hh
  • Theory work is critical and initiated 1809.01830
  • see also recent physics workshop session.

Precision EW measurements @ FCC is the SM complete?

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ILC GigaZ and W runs

strong point is the availability of longitudinal polarization

for both e- and e+!

7 points Z scan ... No Nv measurement.

Energy calibration only at point-to-point level �to be sure that the peak is really the Z peak

measure the Z width, check that expt is running on Z pole.

~10-4 mixing limits on neutrino mixing for e, mu neutrinos

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The Jewel on the ILC crown

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Measuring sin2θWeff (mZ)

sin2θWeff ≡ ¼ (1- gV/gA)

gV = gL + gR

gA = gL - gR

 

Alain Blondel

WIN 05 June 2005

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Here the uncertainty is clearly

detector dependent. Detectors with

highly granular EM calorimeter

and efficient tracker (TPCs)

(ALEPH and DELPHI) fared better that

drift chamber + cristal/leadglass blocks.

  • this measurement is extremely important

and should have heavy impact on detector

design especially the EM calorimeter

(granular rather than high energy resolution.

Δsin2θeff 🡪 ±2 10-6 (abs)

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FCC scan points for mZ and mW

90 ab-1

30 ab-1

30 ab-1

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arXiv:2106.13885

Electroweak measurements:

preliminary systematics (book-keeping) have been given

NEXT: aim at reducing systematics to the level of statistics

FCC Ongoing:

-- dedicated EPOL group to improve ECM calibration using resonant depolarization: � targets: -- reduction of point to point uncertainties 40🡪 5 keV 🡺 4 keV Z width precision

-- reduction of uncertainty at W mass

-- understand fundamental errors between spin resonance frequency and beam energy.� -- improve running scheme accordingly.

big steps achieved already.

-- assess possibility to reduce systematics on dilepton and diphoton selections to statistical level

-- requires uncertainty on the cut on low angle acceptance at the level of 2.5 microradians (6 microns)

🡪 two methods proposed (complementary): detector construction and in-situ calibration

-- target reduce error on Rlept = Γhadlept relative: from (LEP 1.2 10-3) 🡪 CDR 5 10-5 🡪 stat 2.10-6

reduce luminosity determination uncertainty using ee🡪 γγ events to 10-5 absolute

-- improve flavour tagging and uncertainties to reduce Rb= = Γbhad uncertainty

(LEP 0.2163±0.000600) 🡪 CDR 0.000060 🡪 stat 0.0000003 (reduction wrt LEP by factor 2000! )

-- τ lifetime (discussing 2 10-5 on Gτ see M. Dam for the challenge)

-- include all leptons in determination of αQED (mZ) 3 10-5 🡪 anther factor 2?

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About Precision Measurements...

Recent CDF: mW (MeV)= 80’433.5 ± 6.4 stat ± 6.9syst (10-4 precision)

-- « could hint at new physics » and surely created a buzz!

-- precision measurements as broad exploration of new physics in quantum corrections, or mixing (SUSY, Heavy neutrinos, etc..)

(-- questions because inconsistent with previous measurements)

CDF measurement is remarkable in several ways:

  1. (after 10 years of work)

systematic errors similar to statistical precision

  1. relies for the precise calibration on J/ψ, ϒ, Z masses

all measured in e+e- colliders...

using resonant depolarization!

3. emphasizes the need for more than one experiment

Resonant depolarization is the cornerstone of the precision programme of FCC-ee

🡺 Improvement by factor 10-1000 on a long list of precision measurements.

e.g. W mass down to ±250 keV, Z mass and width ±4 keV, sin2θW eff ± 2.10-6 etc..

🡺 explore new physics at 10-100 TeV scale, or 10-5 mixing with known particles.

~40 times more

precise than CDF

factor 500 more

precise than LEP

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FCC-ee beam polarization and

centre-of-mass energy calibration

arXiv:1909.12245

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Beam Polarization can provide two main ingredients to Physics Measurements

  1. Transverse beam polarization provides beam energy calibration

by resonant depolarization

🡪 low level of polarization is required (~10% is sufficient)

🡪 at Z & W pair threshold comes naturally σE ∝ E2/√ρ

🡪 at Z use of asymmetric wigglers at beginning of fills � since polarization time is otherwise very long (250h🡪 ~1h)

🡪 should be used also at ee → H(126)

🡪 use ‘single’ non-colliding bunches and calibrate continuously

during physics fills to avoid issues encountered at LEP

🡪 Compton polarimeter for both e+ and e-

🡪 should calibrate at energies corresponding to half-integer spin tune

🡪 must be complemented by analysis of «average E_beam-to-E_CM» relationship

For beam energies higher than ~90 GeV can use ee → Z γ or ee → WW events

to calibrate ECM at ±1-5 MeV level: mH (5 MeV) and mtop (20 MeV) measts

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Beam Polarization can provide two main ingredients to Physics Measurements

2. Longitudinal beam polarization provides chiral e+e- system

-- High level of polarization is required (>40% )

-- Must compare with natural e+e- polarization due to chiral couplings of electrons (15%)

or with final state polarization analysis for CC weak decays (100% polarized) (tau and top)

-- Physics case for Z peak is very well studied and motivated: � ALR = Ae , AFBPol(f) etc… (CERN Y.R. 88-06)

figure of merit is L.P2 --> must not lose more than a factor ~10 in lumi.

self calibrating polarization measurement requires controlled e+ and e- polarization

at high statistics AFBPol = Ae plays the role of ALR (Tenchini)

-- enhance Higgs cross section (by up to ~30%)

top quark couplings? final state analysis does as well (Janot arXiv:1503.01325)

enhance signal, subtract/monitor backgrounds, for ee→WW , ee →H

-- requires High polarization level and often both e- and e+ polarization

🡺 not interesting If loss of luminosity is too high

-- Obtaining high level of polarization in high luminosity collisions is delicate in top-up mode

DECIDED to FOCUS ON TRANSERSE POLARIZATION FOR ENERGY CALIBRATION

As far as we could check, there is no physics that can be done with longitudinal polarization

that cannot be done without, given enough luminosity

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spin precession (ν is the spin tune)

δθspin = (g-2)/2 . E/m δθtrajectory

= ν . δθtrajectory

ν = Ebeam / 0.4406486

= 103.5 at the Z peak

RESONANT DEPOLARIZATION

Once the beams are polarized,

an RF kicker at the spin precession frequencv

will provoke a spin flip and complete

depolarization

Simulation of FCC-ee by I. Kopp:

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4

4

2

3

mW(MeV) 0.250 -- 0.300 --

First set of results obtained in the FCC Design Study:

Polarization and Centre-of-mass Energy Calibration at FCC-ee, arXiv:1909.12245

Next challenges for the feasibility study:

-- Ascertain the above with integrated simulations (simulation of polarization and depolarization on real machine)

-- Match systematic errors with statistics.

most relevant targets : the point-to-point systematics, improve the calibration at WW energy

– these are effects that would lead to a deviation from relation between

-- the spin tune as measured by resonant depolarization

-- and the center-of-mass energy.

-- examples: 1. interference between depolarizing resonances and the induced depolarizing resonance

because the spin tune varies with energy.

2. effects due to collision offsets folded by opposite sign dispersion

-- designevaluate performance and cost the polarimeter at conceptual level

-- finalize implementation in the realistic machine, study operational aspects

stat/present

500

400

75

15 (qualitiative!)

40

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Progress in FCC-ee energy calibration

From FCC week 2022 and FCC EPOL workshop:

Z pole

WW threshold

-- Resonant depolarization measures energy every 15 minutes

at < 50 keV/beam level at Z, 100 keV/beam at W

  • syst will be reduced to < 100keV on mW�at Z point to point uncertainties remain to be understood

-- Only one RF station around the ring, + the energy losses of the

two beams are strongly constrained from the direct measurement

of boost at the IPs O(5 keV level) every 8hrs shift in 2/4 experiments

-- beam-beam deflection measurement is extremely sensitive to

beam beam offset and local opposite-sign dispersion �(previously large point-to-point error):�still lots to do but O(20 keV) per measurement every 3second

🡺 targeting to match or go below statistical errors

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2. offset by δy = 0.1σy (=3.5nm)

  • opposite kick by 4μrad

(Shatilov) in opposite directions for e+ and e-

  • movement in the BPMs by

± 2 μrad x 2.1m = ±4.2 μm

(x1000 demagnification due to optics)

with a very specific pattern of movements

Vertical beam size at the IP: ~35 nm (at Z pole). Vertical offset of 0.1σy leads to additional orbit angles about ±2 μrad for the nominal bunch population 2.5E+11. (D. Shatilov, simulation)

4.2 μm

COLLISION OFFSET

4μrad

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EW Precision - Conclusions

The Electroweak programme at the Future Higgs/Electroweak/top factories is stunningly precise and effective search for

the existence of new particles with SM couplings or mixing with SM (esp neutrinos) at the level of 10-5

any new significant signal will be discovery.

Precision = discovery potential!

-- from 1 to 3 orders of magnitude improvements in experimental precision, over a large number of observables.

-- the full exploitation of these capabilities will require creativity for detector design and accelerator operations,

and a coordinated campaign of measurements (noise parameters, ancillary measaurements)

-- Matching the mind-boggling statistical precision with experimental systematics and theoretical accuracy will require

a large number of clever tricks and careful methodology

-- a great opportunity for early carrier scientists (acc. exp. and th. alike) to

-- have fun! � -- make a name for themselves and produde or contribute to original contributions.

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NEUTRINOS -- conclusions

The impact of the neutrinos having masses is (in the simplest see-saw type I) is either or both

-- a very rare process : e.g. if light neutrino masses are ~50 meV, a HNL of 50 GeV has a mixing of 10-12

  • expect only very few events in an TeraZ exposure of FCC (9 1012 Z produced)

-- or small effects: the experiments today are sensitive at the 10-3level. With the improved measurements at FCC the limits will be improved to 10-5 for νe νμ and, thanks to the tau lifetime measurement, ντ

Mixing angles can be somewhat larger, see S. Antuschs talk, and statistics of up to 106 HNLs cannot be excluded.

Other more complicated schemes can be built to increase the chances of observation (but less ‘natural’)

-- the neutrinos are the only fermions for which the Yukawa coupling is not the mass �The Dirac mass in the case of a 50 GeV HNL is typically 1/10 of the electron mass.

This also implies that the process H🡪vN which proceeds by the Yukawa coupling, is very small

The possibility – albeit small – of such a discovery is an exciting motivation for the TeraZ run of FCC.