A Novel Statistical Procedure Towards the Discovery of the Higgs Boson

For years, physicists hypothesized the existence of the Higgs Boson; a fundamental particle in the standard model of physics playing a crucial role in the understanding of the electroweak force. However, it took almost 50 years of technological advancements until its discovery was empirically announ...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Atieh, Fadi
Other Authors: Polyanskiy, Yury
Format: Thesis
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2022
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/143228