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SIZES AND COUPLINGS OF COMPOSITE LEPTONS, QUARKS AND W BOSONS F.M. RENARD
Ddpartement de PhysiqueMath~matique l, USTL, 1:-34060Montpellier Cedex, France Received 19 April 1984
We assume that leptons and quarks are much smaller objects than W bosons (A~,q ~- 3.6 TeV; Aw =Mw). This explains the weakness of W couplings to leptons and quarks (as opposed to strong couplings required by radiative Z° decays), the strength of sinZ0w and the present absence of direct lepton and quark substructure effects. We also define a relativistic description of W substructure which should replace the usual non-relativistic wave function and allow better estimates of several processes.
The anomalously large rate o f radiative Z decays [1 ] renewed the interest in composite models for leptons, quarks and W bosons. Several explanations have been proposed for these decays [2]. Most o f them are based on the assumption that weak interactions are residual effects due to the underlying substructure [3]. It was shown [4] before W, Z discovery that such a composite picture can lead to a phenomenology of electroweak interactions in many aspects very similar to the standard one but also [5] that a priori rare W boson decays could be enhanced by substructure effects. The analogy with hadronic interactions allows to expect a large effective coupling to appear in one place or another (ZZT, ZST, Z ~ * , ...) and for example to lead to the enhancement required by Z -+ ££7 events. However there are puzzling questions and deficiencies in this picture. In the present paper we address and answer the following questions: Why are the couplings o f W bosons to leptons and quarks much weaker than usual hadronic couplings (required for enhancing Z ~ ~£7 decays)? Why is the value o f sin20 w (due to 7 - W 3 mixing) so large? Why is there no direct signal o f lepton and quark substructure (no form factor, no contact term, no 1 Physique Math~matique et Th~orique, Equipe de Recherche Associ6e au CNRS. 0.370-2693/84/$ 03.00 © Elsevier Science Publishers B.V. (North-Holland Physics Publishing Division)
g - 2 effects .... )? How could one be confident in non-relativistic descriptions o f W bosons as sub-constituent bound states? Our explanations are based on the assumption that leptons and quarks are much smaller objects than W bosons. We start by showing how one can replace the nonrelativistic approximation (and the weak binding limit) by a fully relativistic description allowing the use o f Feynman diagram techniques. We define a W - h - h ' vertex ~ (1 + 75) ~ W(k, k') whose correspondence with the 3S 1 bound state wave function ¢ ( k ) in momentum space is given by [6] ~(k) .~ [(2n)3Mw ] -1/2
×f
dk 0
4m 2
w(k,k')(k z _m2)(k,2
-m2) ,
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m being the effective mass o f the subconstituents h and h' o f the W bosons. For illustration we take the simple form I~(k, k') = gw A 4 / ( k2 - A 2 ) ( k'2 - A 2 ) •
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As a first application we consider the 7 - W 3 junction Ml2eueU represented in fig. 1. A straightforward calculation o f the Feynman diagram using the vertex function l¢(k,k') gives (for m <~ A w ~ M w ) 119
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~c~ Fig. 1. "r-Wa junction.
X = -(gW/247r2)e(Q)V~H,
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where (Q) and n H are the average constituent charge and hypercolor number. Eq. (3) replaces the usual non-relativistic expression [7] X = [~b~O)/x/~]
e(Q)'~H/Mw3/2 ,
(4)
with ~ 0 ) = (2rr)-3/2fd3@(k). The normalization of gw [equivalent to that of 4~(k) through (1)] can be estimated from fd3k l¢(k)12/47r = 1 and assuming an extension Mff 1 . The result Igw[ ~ 1 2 r r 2 v ~ ,
(5)
roughly agrees with eq. (3) taking for example (Q) = 1/X/~,n H = 3 and the value [ 8 - 1 1 ] X-~ sin0 w -~0.5. We then consider the couplings o f W bosons to other bosonic or fermionic bound states, From the pictures of fig. 2a and 2b and the hadronic analogy we would expect a rather large dimensionless coupling constant f. A comparison with gorrrr -~ 6 and g~rNN ~ 13 suggests that f c o u l d easily be of order 10. In fact this is precisely the order of magnitude required by the interpretations [2,3] of Z -+ £~/events based on high mass intermediate states like S, Z or 2*. So we adopt this magnitude for the couplings o f W bosons to other extended objects (type 2a). In early times of composite models based on low compositeness scales it was found natural to expect [7,12] that the couplingg of W to leptons or quarks be also of orderf. In turn asg2/8M2w = G/x/~this led to expect large M w masses. Later additional constraints (like asymptotic symmetry [8], unitarity [9], current algebra [10] or W-dominance [ 11]) enforced g a n d M w to be closer to the standard values but raised the question: why is g much smaller than f. We t
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now explicitly show how this can be a consequence of a different size for W bosons and for lepton or quarks. It is intuitively obvious from fig. 2b that the effective couplings depend upon the overlap of W and leptons (or quarks) extensions. Contrarily to the case of fig. 2a where the overlap is of order 1, in fig. 2b we have the overlap
f d 3 k ~](k, k')I~(k, k')l 2 ,
(6)
for which a non-relativistic approximation with constant wave functions gives 6rr2(R~/Rw)3. Let us make a relativistic calculation using an effective lepton vertex function [ 13]
[~b~(k, k')i 2 = ere/[k ' 2 - A2] 2 .
(7)
The normalization is obtained by the computation of the electromagnetic Dirac form factor (fig. 2c) and F 1(0) = 1 ; this gives gre = 32rr2A 2 .
(8)
A similar calculation of the diagram of fig. 2b then gives [by identification to the usual W££' vertex (g/ 2~u/2)fi~(1 + @ ) ¢ u~,]:
g = ½X,/2fgw(Aw/AQ) 2 ~- 8~2x/~f(Aw/Are) 2 ,
(9)
using eq. (5). This clearly shows the dependence o f g upon the extension ratio (Aw/Are)2. I f f is of order 10 the actual value g -~ 0.65 (i.e, e/sin 0 w in the standard model) requires (Aw/Are) 2-'" 5 × 10 - 4 , i.e. A~ -~ 45A w which means Are -~ 3.6 TeV i f A w ~ M w. This small lepton (or quark) extension a posteriori justifies the use of a perturbation calculation based on the diagram o f fig. 2b. In turn we can now write the expression of sin20 w coming from 7 - W 3 mixing [4,8] using eqs. (4) and (9): sin20 w =
eX/g = (~/rr)((QN/~H/2X/~f) (Are/Aw) 2. (10)
It makes very explicit the origin of the enhancement with respect to the electromagnetic vacuum polarization factor c~hr. The quantity ((Q)~v/-ff-HHH/2\/~f)X ( A J A w ) 2 is of order 100. The large value of sin20w (20.23) is due to the large ratio o f W boson to lepton and quark extensions. Using duality arguments it was already argued [ 14] that this large value of sin20w could be due to a large level spacing between
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the ground W state and excited W(') states. Although the lines o f thought are different these results may be consiste nt. The re may be two effective scales [ 15 ] in this problem. One (A~) can be the basic compositeness scale. The other one (A w -~Mw) can just be an effective scale due to the actual mass of the ground state. We could also think that the main difference between leptons (or quarks) and W bosons is due to the presence o f scalar subconstituents with high masses. This may have something to do with supersymmetry breaking. It is striking that with our calculations A~ appears to lie just above the present values o f the lower limit on lepton and quark substructure coming from the absence o f residual contact terms in e+e- collisions [16]. The absence o f a g - 2 effect requires a few remarks. Hadronic analogy with 0NN and ~oNN couplings raised the question: why does a large Pauli (aU~'q~,)term not appear in W couplings to leptons or quarks. This Pauli term could through W-dominance propagate to photon couplings and give a g - 2 contribution o f order m~/A~. The answer uses both chirality and the high value o f A~. First in a true chiral world with left-handed or right-handed W - h - h ' vertices no direct contribution to Pauli couplings can appear in diagram o f fig. 2b. Chiral symmetry breaking terms which could be at the origin o f the lepton and quark masses may appear [13,17] at order (m~/A~) 2. With our value o f A~ they are not yet observable [ 18]. We now come back to the radiative W -+ ~ ' 7 decays. The diagrams o f fig. 3 can be computed in the non-relativistic or in the relativistic formalism using the l~(k, k') and ~ ( k , k') vertex functions defined above. The result can be written I'(W -+ ~ ' 7 ) ~- (a/4n)
(Q)2F(W-+~'),
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where (Q) is some combination of the subconstituent charges which depends on the helicity properties of the h h ' + £~' transition. Obviously the ( ~ ' ) final state is not necessarily a vector. The factorization o f F ( W ~ ~ ' ) in eq. (11) is only done for convenient rate evaluation. We notice that it is only i n t h e non-
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relativistic and weak binding approximation that one gets (Q) ~ (Qh - Qh') for a spin zero ( ~ ' ) state. In this special case the W-+ radiative .decay is forbidden in the haplon model (Qh = Qh' - 5 1) as observed by Baur et al. [3]. In general the charge combination is non zero but it can nevertheless be quantitatively different in W ± and in Z 0 cases. However the ratio (a/4rr) (Q)2 ~ 10-3 is much lower than the experimental [1] one (3/14). This confirms the need for enhancements for example coming from fermionic (~*) and/ or bosonic (S, V) intermediate states with strong couplings of hadronic type [2,3]. In conclusion we have shown that it is possible in composite models to understand why W couplings to leptons or quarks are much weaker than those expected from hadronic analogy and required by the interpretations of Z + ~ 7 events. The reason is a small ratio (of the order o f Aw/A Q -~ 1/45) o f lepton or quark extension to W extension. We expect A~ to be of the order o f 3.6 TeV. This also clearly shows why sin20 w due to 3'-W 3 mixing and enhanced by (A~/Aw)2 is so large. Such a value of A~ explains why no direct substructure effect ofleptons and quarks has been observed up to now (no form factor, no residual contact term, no g - 2 effects). On the opposite the low value o f the effective W scale (A w -~Mw) allows for composite effects to appear in processes involving W bosons and their extended partners (WWZ, WWS, ...). Instead o f the non-relativistic approximation (and weak binding limit) we define and use a relativistic W - h - h ' vertex which allows various types of calculations and gives more confidence in the evaluation [5] o f Z -+ 37, Z ~ Z3', W ~ WT, Z or W 3'ff, ... and any other perturbative process.
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