Blog on my journey in High Energy Physics
Week 5 was a mix of making the ZH selection more realistic, trying out the first non-zero Wilson coefficients, and going down a dark matter rabbit hole in lectures. Monday 27th October — Dark matter and “scintillates like a pig” This Monday’s DM lecture was a nice change of pace from fighting with Herwig cards. …
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UCL Burger shop's burger, 9 quid for 3 patties not bad. This week felt like a mix of theory revision, code archaeology, and finally getting my own Rivet routine to actually run. Less “big discovery”, more slowly making the setup honest. Tuesday 21st October — Why was ZZ so big? We started with a quick …
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Figure 1. Marble Arch is finally fixed with its ugly construction things taken out. Now it looks way better. This week had been extremely busy with master applications so Tuesday 14th October — FCC Group MeetingFirst meeting in our group, introducing: me, Jon, Tim, Wei, Lauren and Stephen. This week’s discussion mainly revisited my previous …
Well, here begins the researching of the research papers — time to find a literature-stated range for the Wilson coefficients we used (cHB and cHW). Lucky me! The second paper I picked actually includes some of the data we need. It’s titled “The Effective Standard Model after LHC Run I” by John Ellis. See the two operators that include them — …
Monday, morning meeting when I showed Jon my run3 and run4 heat maps which are somewhat interesting and because I zoomed in a bit too much in run3 so I had to do a run4 to fix it. With some human labour, we can now just about make out the edges of the contours, but …
Noot in Circle 