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A Moriond Retrospective: New Results from the LHC Experiments

Hi ParticleBiters! In lieu of a typical HEP paper summary this month, I’m linking a comprehensive overview of the new

Why Electroweak SUSY is the Next Big Thing

Title: “Search for new physics in events with two low momentum opposite-sign leptons and missing transverse energy at s =

Beauty-full exotic bound states at the LHC

Article: Beauty-full Tetraquarks Authors: Yang Bai, Sida Lu, and James Osborn Reference: https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.00012 Good Day Nibblers, As you probably already

It’s A Wrap! Summary of ATLAS Updates from 2016

Article: Latest ATLAS results from Run 2 Authors: Claudia Gemme on behalf of the ATLAS Collaboration Reference: arXiv:1612.01987 2016 certainly

Are you smarter than an ATLAS algorithm?

Article: ‘That looks weird’ — evaluating citizen scientists’ ability to detect unusual features in ATLAS images of LHC collisions Authors: A.J.

Studying the Higgs via Top Quark Couplings

Article: “Implications of CP-violating Top-Higgs Couplings at LHC and Higgs Factories” Authors: Archil Kobakhidze, Ning Liu, Lei Wu, and Jason

The end of the Universe?

Hello nibblers, Don’t worry, my title doesn’t refer to the recent US election. Only to the end of the Universe

Saving SUSY: Interpreting the 3.3σ ATLAS Stop Excess

Article: Surviving scenario of stop decays for ATLAS l+jets+E_T^miss search Authors: Chengcheng Han, Mihoko M. Nojiri, Michihisa Takeuchi, and Tsutomu T. Yanagida

What Happens When Energy Goes Missing?

Title: “Performance of algorithms that reconstruct missing transverse momentum in s = √8 TeV proton–proton collisions in the ATLAS detector”

Tracking the Jets to Monte Carlo

Article: Calculating Track-Based Observables for the LHC Authors: Hsi-Ming Chang, Massimiliano Procura, Jesse Thaler, and Wouter J. Waalewijn Reference: arXiv:1303.6637