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LHC physicists embrace brute-force approach to particle hunt

The world’s most powerful particle collider has yet to turn up new physics — now some physicists are turning to a different strategy.
  1. Davide Castelvecchi
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A once-controversial approach to particle physics has entered the mainstream at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The LHC’s major ATLAS experiment has officially thrown its weight behind the method — an alternative way to hunt through the reams of data created by the machine — as the collider’s best hope for detecting behaviour that goes beyond the standard model of particle physics. Conventional techniques have so far come up empty-handed.

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Nature 560, 293-294 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-05972-7

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  1. ATLAS Collaboration. Preprint at https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.07447v1 (2018).

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