Category: HEP

The last piece of the puzzle is what I actually do with these simulated events. This is where Rivet comes in. This rivet is not RIVET Rivet (Robust Independent Validation of Experiment and Theory) is a C++ framework used all over HEP to analyse Monte Carlo events in a way that closely mirrors published measurements. …

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One slightly unintuitive fact about modern collider physics is that we simulate most things before we measure them. My project is no exception: a lot of the work happens in Monte Carlo (MC) generators long before anyone thinks about a real detector. For the FCC studies, I mainly use two tools: MadGraph and Herwig. Both …

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Credit: AI (Not my best AI work but just pretend this is FCC's tunnel) If you’ve followed my posts, you already know I spend a lot of time thinking about a machine that does not exist yet: the Future Circular Collider (FCC). So it is fair to ask: why do we need another collider when …

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One of the big themes of my project is the idea that we can learn about new physics without ever producing the new particles directly. That is exactly what Effective Field Theory (EFT) is for. In the Standard Model, we write down all the renormalisable interactions of the known particles. EFT takes a different view: …

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