Getting to Higgs

You will be working with at least one partner.
Your teacher may decide to have each team work through all the data analysis or divide the tasks among the teams.

Check with your teacher to see how your class will complete this work.

Begin by recording what you know already that may help you with this assignment and what you need to find out.
The Particle Adventure is a good background reference.

Notes: Divide efforts into evidence for B mesons and evidence for W.
Study B events. What does the event picture look like? Jets from B meson have "displaced vertices." Find out what a vertex is. What does it mean to say it is "displaced"? Learn how to identify "the gap." What does the gap tell us? How is it measured? Do all B events have the same gap? Is this like anything else we've studied? Now the data. How do we analyze data? What graph can we draw? What will we learn?	Study W events. Use decay mode e + ν. What does event picture look like? Neutrinos in event pictures — how? Why are e and ν back to back (or close to it)? What suggests e and ν come from W? W has large "transverse mass." Find out what transverse mass is. What is energy range for e to be W decay particle? What rules do we know that apply here? Now the data. How do we analyze data? What graph can we draw? What will we learn?
We know how to identify Bs and Ws and analyze the data. On to the Higgs!