Particle data analysis is a computational technique used to process and interpret data from particle detectors in high-energy, nuclear, or astroparticle physics experiments. It encompasses event reconstruction, track finding, vertex reconstruction, particle identification, and energy/momentum estimation from raw detector signals. The method relies on statistical inference, likelihood fits, multivariate classification, and unfolding procedures to extract physical observables from detector-level quantities while correcting for efficiencies, resolutions, and backgrounds. Particle data analysis pipelines are typically implemented within specialized software frameworks and are essential for testing theoretical models and determining parameters such as cross sections, lifetimes, and branching ratios.
One of the biggest open questions in particle physics today is how the Higgs boson interacts with itself. This "self-coupling" could help explain the evolution of the early universe and the mechanism that gives mass to elementary ...
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Recent findings from research we have been carrying out at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at Cern in Geneva suggest that we might be closing in on signs of undiscovered physics.
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An international collaboration, including Northwestern University, has reached a critical milestone in the search for dark matter, the mysterious substance that makes up about 85% of all matter in the universe. Located two ...
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Bio & Medicine
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The NA62 Collaboration has dramatically reduced the uncertainty in its measurement of an extremely rare particle decay, in results just presented at the 2026 La Thuile conference.
General Physics
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The tiny fatty capsules that deliver COVID-19 mRNA vaccines into billions of arms may work better when they're a little disorganized. That's the surprising finding from researchers who developed a new way to examine these ...
Bio & Medicine
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The CMS Collaboration has shown, for the first time, that machine learning can be used to fully reconstruct particle collisions at the LHC. This new approach can reconstruct collisions more quickly and precisely than traditional ...
General Physics
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Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a novel artificial intelligence (AI)-based method to dramatically tame the flood of data generated by particle detectors at ...
General Physics
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