ParticleBites

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

Does the Higgs talk to itself?

Article: Indirect probes of the trilinear Higgs Coupling Authors: Martin Gorbahn, Ulrich Haisch Reference: 1607.03773 Hello particle munchers, I’m back to further discuss

Universality classes are not that universal (…and some of its other shortcomings)

Article: Shortcomings of New Parameterizations of Inflation Authors: J. Martin, C. Ringeval and V. Vennin Reference: arXiv:1609.04739 The Cosmic Microwave Background

Daya Bay and the search for sterile neutrinos

Today I bring you news from the Daya Bay reactor neutrino experiment, which detects neutrinos emitted by three nuclear power

A new anomaly: the electromagnetic duality anomaly

Article: Electromagnetic duality anomaly in curved spacetimes Authors: I. Agullo, A. del Rio and J. Navarro-Salas Reference: arXiv:1607.08879 Disclaimer: this blogpost requires some