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Tag Archives: Higgs
Leptons Four the Win
This was a labour of love… (arXiv)
Vector-like Quarks
My colleagues and I have a new paper on the arXiv today on New sensitivity of current LHC measurements to vector-like quarks. Vector-like quarks are hypothetical particles that appear in some extensions of the Standard Model. Such extensions are continually being … Continue reading
Posted in Particle Physics, Philosophy, Physics, Science
Tagged ATLAS, CMS, contur, Cosmic Shambles, Higgs, LHC, Postcards from the Energy Frontier
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I changed the title of my previous post, because I was worried it would mislead people, or at best look like a crap pun. It was originally called “A boost in testing times”. The potentially misleading — and entirely unintentional … Continue reading
A boost in trying times
My first ever blog post was about measuring the Higgs boson when it is produced with very high momentum and decays to b-quarks. When that happens, all the decay products of the Higgs appear in a single “jet” of particles. … Continue reading
Posted in Particle Physics, Physics, Science
Tagged ATLAS, Boost, CERN, colliding particles, Gavin Salam, Gregory Soyez, Hannah Arnold, Higgs, Matteo Cacciari
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