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RE: A crash course on particle physics (towards our steemSTEM meetup at CERN) - 6 - pushing the frontiers further with particle accelerators

in #steemstem6 years ago

I think so.....so basically we are trying to isolate the collisions of interest while keeping those we are not interested in to a minimum.
Fascinating.....thanks for the explanation.

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Yes exactly. For instance, if one is are looking for the Higgs boson in a final state where there are four muons, we will ignore, in our analysis, any collision that does not contain any muon. This sounds logical, but the basic idea is there :)