ParticleBites

Discovering the Top Quark

This post is about the discovery of the most massive quark in the Standard Model, the Top quark. Below is

To the Standard Model, and Beyond! with Kaon Decay

Title: “New physics implications of recent search for at KOTO” Author: Kitahara et. al. Reference: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.11111.pdf The Standard Model, though

Lazy photons at the LHC

Title: “Search for long-lived particles using delayed photons in proton-proton collisions at √ s = 13 TeV” Author: CMS Collaboration

CMS catches the top quark running

CMS catches the top quark running Article : “Running of the top quark mass from proton-proton collisions at √ s

The lighter side of Dark Matter

Article title: “Absorption of light dark matter in semiconductors” Authors: Yonit Hochberg, Tongyan Lin, and Kathryn M. Zurek Reference: arXiv:1608.01994

Discovering the Tau

This plot is the first experimental evidence for the particle that would eventually be named the tau. On the horizontal

The Early Universe in a Detector: Investigations with Heavy-Ion Experiments

Title: “Probing dense baryon-rich matter with virtual photons” Author: HADES Collaboration Reference: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-019-0583-8 The quark-gluon plasma, a sea of unbound

When light and light collide

Title: “Evidence for light-by-light scattering in heavy-ion collisions with the ATLAS detector at the LHC” Author: ATLAS Collaboration Reference: doi:10.1038/nphys4208

Going Rogue: The Search for Anything (and Everything) with ATLAS

Title: “A model-independent general search for new phenomena with the ATLAS detector at √s=13 TeV” Author: The ATLAS Collaboration Reference: ATLAS-PHYS-CONF-2017-001

Grad students can apply now for ComSciCon’18!

Applications are now open for the Communicating Science 2018 workshop, to be held in Boston, MA on June 14-16, 2018!