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Real-time data analysis in particle physics

Vladimir Vava Gligorov (2024), Scholarpedia, 19(3):53035.

Particle physics experiments which produce more data than can be read out by their detectors or recorded to... more

SuperSymmetry and the LHC Run 2

Iacopo Vivarelli (2024), Scholarpedia, 19(3):56131.

The idea of exploiting potential symmetries of a physical system to impose constraints on the system's Lagrangian... more

Gravitational Waves: Ground-Based Interferometric Detectors

Marie Anne Bizouard and Nelson Christensen (2023), Scholarpedia, 18(12):53893.

A century after their prediction by Albert Einstein, gravitational waves, produced from a binary black hole merger... more

The Top quark discovery

Guillaume Unal (2023), Scholarpedia, 18(6):55687.

The top quark, the heaviest elementary particle known to date, was discovered by the CDF and D0 collaborations in 1995... more

Searching for Long-Lived BSM Particles at the LHC

Marie-Hélène Genest (2022), Scholarpedia, 17(12):54697.

By definition, a long-lived particle (LLP) is an unstable particle with a sizeable lifetime... more