Tag: EXO
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Fishing for dark matter using displaced muons
Dark matter is mysterious.
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Looking for the invisible, literally!
Experimental particle physics is like a game of hide and seek.
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In a detector far, far away: searching for elusive long-lived travellers by tracing pairs of muons
A search for long-lived particles decaying into two muons has been performed by the CMS collaboration. Many scenarios of beyond standard model physics envisage such a possibility, whereby the exotic particles, travel before decaying, a considerable distance which can range from few microns to several kilometres depending on detailed properties. The striking experimental signature of…
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Hunting leptoquarks with the CMS experiment
The CMS Collaboration has released a new search for leptoquarks, a hypothetical particle that would be the “missing link” between quarks and leptons. The result has been submitted to the journal Physics Letters B.
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Searching for the totally unknown
It is the dream of all particle physicists to find a new particle or to reveal a new fundamental force.
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A disappearing act in CMS
New, undiscovered charged particles could be produced by the LHC, leaving tracks in CMS that look similar to tracks from Standard Model particles. If the new particle decays to other, unseen new particles inside the CMS tracker, a very striking signature would be observed: a ‘disappearing track’. CMS has carried out a new search for…
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Using artificial intelligence to search for new exotic particles
Nowadays, artificial neural networks have an impact on many areas of our day-to-day lives. They are used for a wide variety of complex tasks, such as driving cars, performing speech recognition (for example, Siri, Cortana, Alexa), suggesting shopping items and trends, or improving visual effects in movies (e.g., animated characters such as Thanos from the…
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New CMS results at Moriond (Electroweak) 2013
New results on the Higgs-like boson, Supersymmetry, and searches for exotic physics
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The search for microscopic black holes, as of March 2012
The search for microscopic black holes at the LHC is motivated by the hierarchy problem — the huge observed difference between the strengths of the electroweak and gravitational forces.
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Search for Dark Matter and Large Extra Dimensions in pp Collisions Yielding a Photon and Missing Transverse Energy
Results are presented from a search for new physics in which the final state contains a photon (γ) and missing transverse energy (MET).