Physics Highlights from ALEPH(Winter Conferences 2002) Paschal Coyle Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille On behalf of the ALEPH Collaboration LEP Physics Jamboree, Feb 28th 2002
Preliminaries • All results shown are final i.e. recently published or about to be published • The WW analyses are still ongoing, will not give preliminary numbers- results anticipated for the summer • All LEP I results profit from reprocessing of the data -improved lepton ID, charged particle tracking and dE/dX • All limits given at 95% confidence level LEP Physics Jamboree, Feb 28th, 2002
R-parity beauty GMSB sleptons charm squarks Asymmetries SUSY Higgs charged Bsoscillations exclusive ? MSSM Ds-lepton Standard Model inclusive-lepton LEP Physics Jamboree, Feb 28th, 2002
New Heavy Flavour Results at LEP I - Bs Oscillations - AFB LEP Physics Jamboree, Feb 28th, 2002
Bs Oscillations B 0 s n “topological” c meson _ _ _ W s(d) b - - Bs(d) Bs(d) t t W s(d) b Vts(td) Final state Topology: Initial state B 0 s K Initial state Mistag(NN) ~24% IP Kf l + NEW Improved Exclusive Bs Inclusive lepton Ds-lepton l + l + B 0 s B p+ 0 s n Ds- Ds- More details: CERN-EP 2002/016 better Bs purity, better resolution, less events LEP Physics Jamboree, Feb 28th, 2002
Bs Oscillations: Exclusive Bs ALEPH • Bs decay chain: BsDs-+, BsDs-a1+ • (with fully reconstructed Ds- -, K*K-) • Events with photons and º’srecovered e.g. BsDs*--(a1-) with Ds*-Ds • Statistics low: Ds-a1+ 36 events Ds-+ 44 events • High Bs purity (e.g. ~80% ) • Very good proper time resolution as no (factor 3 better than inclusive analysis) • Final state tag is perfect LEP Physics Jamboree, Feb 28th, 2002
Bs Oscillations: Ds-lepton • 297 Ds-lepton candidates reconstructed in: 8 channels (hadronic and semileptonic) • Bs purity~40%. Discriminating variables used to identify subsamples with higher Bs fraction • Careful parametrization of momentum and decay length resolutions • Proper time resolution reasonable (despite ) hadronic decays LEP Physics Jamboree, Feb 28th, 2002
Bs Oscillations: Inclusive Lepton • New vertexing algorithm: estimate of B • direction included as ‘track’ in the fit • (typically 10% better resolution) • Neural net for bl tagging based on: • lepton p, pT, energy, lepton i.p. wrt to c vertex • New selection: *2.2 more events (~74k), with • same resolution as old analysis • Subclasses for decay length resolution, each • with separate correction for the estimate of • event-by-event decay length uncertainty • Event-by-event Bs fraction from neural net • based on: • charge estimators of charm vertex (B0 vs B+) • presence of decay K+, K0s, , (Bs vs B0) • presence of fragmentation K+ bl tagging NN Bs fraction NN LEP Physics Jamboree, Feb 28th, 2002
Bs Oscillations: The Amplitude Plots w=ms A=1 W<ms A=0 A Inclusive lepton Ds-lepton Exclusive Obs. limit: ms>2.4 ps-1 Exp. limit: ms>0.3 ps-1 ms>7.2 ps-1 ms>7.4 ps-1(was 6.6 ps-1) ms>11.4 ps-1(was 9.5 ps-1) ms>14.0 ps-1(was 9.8 ps-1) 1.645A@15ps-1: 2.5 1.645A@15ps-1: 1.2 1.645A@15ps-1: 2.1 LEP Physics Jamboree, Feb 28th, 2002
Bs Oscillations: ALEPH Combination Observed limit: ms > 10.8 ps-1(was 9.6 ps-1 ) Expected limit: ms > 15.6 ps-1 (was 10.6 ps-1 ) Consistent with expectations for a signal around ms=16-18 ps-1 LEP Physics Jamboree, Feb 28th, 2002
Bs Oscillations: WORLD Combination Observed limit: ms > 14.9 ps-1 Expected limit: ms > 19.3 ps-1 Can not claim a measurement LEP Physics Jamboree, Feb 28th, 2002
AFBb and AFBc using Leptons b l- b l+ - e- e- AFBb e+ e+ b b sin2 W Sample of inclusive semileptonic decays is binned in variables (NN outputs) which discriminate: b versus c versus uds bl versus bcl in b events LEP Physics Jamboree, Feb 28th, 2002
AFBb and AFBc using Leptons b enriched c enriched 70 angular distributions of signed thrust axis are simultaneously fitted with AFBb and AFBc as free parameters Off peak points also measured More details: CERN EP/2001-097 AFB0,b = 0.0998 0.0040 0.0017 AFB0,c = 0.0732 0.0053 0.0037 LEP Physics Jamboree, Feb 28th, 2002
AFB0,b –ALEPH and LEP Combination ALEPH has also published a measurement of AFBb using an inclusive jet charge method EPJ C22 (2001) 201: AFB0,b = 0.1017 0.0027 0.0012 New ALEPH only Combination: AFB0,b = 0.1011 0.0026 (sin2 W = 0.231880.00047) LEP Physics Jamboree, Feb 28th, 2002
ALEPH Measurements of Sin2eff All Results Are Final comparable precision to the most precise determination from SLD: sin2eff = 0.23098 0.00026 LEP Physics Jamboree, Feb 28th, 2002
Searches for Higgs bosons at LEP II • SM • MSSM • Invisible • Charged LEP Physics Jamboree, Feb 28th, 2002
Final Results for SM Higgs Search • Preliminary results published in PLB 495 (2000) 1: 3s excess - 2 independent analysis streams (NN, Cuts) -fixed before data taking • Final results recently published in PLB 526 (2002)191 - Additional MCmore precise shapes and efficiencies - All Y2K data reprocessed- gaining 1pb-1 most significant candidates already reprocessed for the preliminary publication - New LEP ECM- about 140 MeV lower - Further systematic studies Impact of uncertainties on (1-CLb)from b-tagging, correlations in discriminating variables, jet smearing, gluon splitting, as, MC description of selection variables - Improved treatment ofbeam-induced background Studied on random triggers, “dirty MC” generated, cleaning procedure implemented LEP Physics Jamboree, Feb 28th, 2002
Candidate (b) 4 b cand. HZ hyp. mH= 112.8GeV NN = 0.997 jet b-tag: Z 1 0.994 2 0.78 H 3 0.993 4 0.999 Evis= 252 GeV ! very bad kin. fit! ELEP=206.7 22 GeV in SICAL LEP Physics Jamboree, Feb 28th, 2002
SM Higgs: Treatment of Beam Induced Backgrounds min{2(norm)- 2(ISR)} R= 2(beam) Events with an energetic, isolated, low angle cluster are fitted to three hypotheses: 1)Cluster- part of event standard four-jet fit [2(norm)] 2) Cluster- ISR photon fit rest of event to four-jets taking into account momentum imbalance caused hypothetical ISR photon [2(ISR)] 3) Cluster- beam induced background remove from event and fit rest of event to four-jets [2(beam)] R>2 beam contamination candidate (b) MC (no Beam bkg) MC with Beam bkg M(Higgs) of candidate (b): 112.8 GeV114.4 GeV LEP Physics Jamboree, Feb 28th, 2002
SM Higgs: Results Expected (bkg only) Expected (bkg only) observed observed 0.24% Expected (sig+bkg) Expected (sig+bkg) NN stream Preliminary result confirmed: Excess observed and consistent with Higgs mass ~115 GeV LEP Physics Jamboree, Feb 28th, 2002
SM Higgs: Significance of Excess Observed Limit on M(higgs)>111.5 GeV Expected Limit on M(higgs)>114.2 GeV LEP Physics Jamboree, Feb 28th, 2002
SM Higgs: systematics studies If added in quadrature: 0.17 0.15 LEP Physics Jamboree, Feb 28th, 2002
Higgs bosons in the MSSM sin(-) cos(-) e- Z Z* hZ:SM topologies hA:4b, bb N exp. N obs. (year 2000) 4b 5.5 10 bb3.0 3 e+ h small tan large tan No mixing scenario Combined vs. tan mh> 89.8 GeV mA> 90.1 GeV 0.7<tan < 2.3 excluded (mh max scenario) mh max scenario More details: PLB 526 (2002)191 LEP Physics Jamboree, Feb 28th, 2002
Invisible Higgs mh > 114.1 GeVfor 2=1 In some parameter regions Higgs can decay invisibly e.g. h Nobs. Nexp. Acoplanar leptons 7 6.7 Acoplanar jets 42 48.6 year 2000 More details: PLB 526 (2002)191 LEP Physics Jamboree, Feb 28th, 2002
Charged Higgs 3 different topologies: N obs. N exp. (year 2000) H+ H- 9 14.0 H+ H- cs 127 108.9 H+ H- cs cs 950963.2 cs cs channel mH+ > 79.3 GeV(any BR) LEP Physics Jamboree, Feb 28th, 2002
Searches for SUSY particles at LEP II • Sleptons • Squarks • GMSB • R-parity violation LEP Physics Jamboree, Feb 28th, 2002
MSSM: Scalar Leptons ~ l l Pair of oppositely charged, same flavour leptons (e,,) Nobs./Nexp. 39/35.5 Nobs./Nexp. 54/63.0 Nobs./Nexp. 39/38.1 year 2000: ~ ~ ~ M(R)> 76 GeV M(R)> 88 GeV M(eR)> 95 GeV tan=2, =-200 GeV more details: CERN EP/2001-086 Only valid for m>15 GeV LEP Physics Jamboree, Feb 28th, 2002
MSSM: Scalar Leptons-absolute mass limit ~ ~ Use eReL production in small M region: 2<M<4 GeV: eReL -1 soft, 1 hard electron cuts on P(esoft) as f(M(),M(eR)) M<2 GeV: eReL -1 hard electron single electron selection ~ ~ ~ ~ Gaps in chargino selections (‘corridor’), filled using production of 13 Problems when 2 is light use 2B/3B chargino selections ~ lRl 1l 2(1ll)l 2(1)l ~ ~ ~ M(eR)> 73 GeV, M(eL)> 107 GeV, M() > 84 GeV LEP Physics Jamboree, Feb 28th, 2002
MSSM: Scalar Leptons-effect of Higgs mass limit For a given m0: limit on Mh gives limit on M1/2 as function of tan Use Higgs results: Mh >111 GeV for small tan ~ ~ ~ M(eL)> 115(115) GeV M()> 84 (84) GeV M(eR)> 77(75) GeV For mtop=175(180) GeV and assuming no stau mixing LEP Physics Jamboree, Feb 28th, 2002
MSSM: Scalar Quarks ~ t c/u1 Acoplanar jets (36/34.5) longed lived hadrons (1/2.8) Size of mixing proportional to mass of SM partner stop the lightest squark ~ ~ ~ t b l Acoplanar jets+leptons 11/7.2 (all years) t b 1 f f’ Multi-jets 6/5.8 NEW W* BR ~ ~ ~ ~ M(t)>97 GeV, M>8 GeV M(t)>78 GeV, M>10 GeV M(t)>92 GeV, M>8 GeV ~ M(t)>63 GeV, any M, any decay LEP Physics Jamboree, Feb 28th, 2002
Gauge Mediated SUSY Breaking Topologies ~ ~ G is the Lightest Supersymmetric Particle (LSP) ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ LEP Physics Jamboree, Feb 28th, 2002
Gauge Mediated SUSY Breaking Topologies ~ ~ ~ Stau NLSP (l l G) Neutralino NLSP (G) Kinks & i.p: 1/1.1 Acoplanar Photons (4/4.9) + Non-pointing Photons (2/1.0) Stable heavy charged 1/2.3 Acoplanar leptons M(stau) > 77 GeV (any lifetime) M(1) > 52 GeV (any lifetime) MNLSP> 52 (77) GeV universal mass scale - > 10 (16) TeV M(G) > 0.024 (0.061) eV (Using Higgs constraint) For no. messenger pairs<6 ~ LEP Physics Jamboree, Feb 28th, 2002
R-Parity Violation: Single Sneutrino Production Production: Decay: direct- 3 leptons - 7 out of 9 (LLE) couplings accessible - Masses up to s via neutralino- 3 leptons+ Emiss e.g. (132) e e ~ (132) ~ more details: CERN EP/2001-094 similar limits for other s LEP Physics Jamboree, Feb 28th, 2002
Summary Many ALEPH physics analyses completed…. Bs oscillation analyses (exclusive, Ds-lepton, semi-inclusive) - sensitivity significantly improved b and c asymmetries (leptons, inclusive) Searches for SM Higgs -confirms conclusions of preliminary publication Searches for SUSY Charged and invisible Higgs Absolute mass limits on scalar leptons and quarks Complete study within the GMSB framework R-Parity single sneutrino production LEP Physics Jamboree, Feb 28th, 2002