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“Diversity and inclusion:” a meta-look at ICHEP

Highlights from this summer’s ICHEP conference and its sessions devoted to diversity and inclusion in HEP.

Catching The Higgs Speeding

Article Title: Inclusive search for highly boosted Higgs bosons decaying to bottom quark-antiquark pairs in proton-proton collisions at √s= 13

SUSY vs. The Machines

Article title: Bayesian Neural Networks for Fast SUSY Predictions Authors: B. S. Kronheim, M. P. Kuchera, H. B. Prosper, A.

A shortcut to truth

Can neural nets cut through thick layers of high energy code?

Representation and Discrimination in Particle Physics

Particle physics, like its overarching fields of physics and astronomy, has a diversity problem. Black students and researchers are severely

First Evidence the Higgs Talks to Other Generations

Article Titles: “Measurement of Higgs boson decay to a pair of muons in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(S) = 13 TeV”

A simple matter

Article title: Evidence of A Simple Dark Sector from XENON1T Anomaly Authors: Cheng-Wei Chiang, Bo-Qiang Lu Reference: arXiv:2007.06401 As with

Charmonium-onium: A fully charmed tetraquark

Paper Title: Observation of structure in the -pair mass spectrum Authors: LHCb Collaboration Reference: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.16957.pdf The Announcement The LHCb collaboration

Crystals are dark matter’s best friends

Or how to cross-check dark matter hopes.

The XENON1T Excess : The Newest Craze in Particle Physics

Paper: Observation of Excess Electronic Recoil Events in XENON1T Authors: XENON1T Collaboration Recently the particle physics world has been abuzz