EXAMINING A NEW METHOD FOR THE DISCOVERY OF HYPOTHETICAL EXOTIC PARTICLES

This research seeks to explore a new method for the discovery of new hypothetical particles. Studying data collected from collisions of particles at high energies offer the possibility to discover new states of matter, which could help scientist map the fundamental nature of the universe. The Large Hadron Collider, at CERN in Geneva, currently has the highest energy available, colliding protons at 13 TeV (teraelectronvolts). It produces tens of petabytes of data every year and physicists are combining through this data searching for possible evidence of new particles. In many cases, however, these new exotic particles may be invisible to the detectors that capture the particle collisions. Agashe et al (Phys. Rev. D88 2013 5, 057701) have proposed a novel method to investigate for these nearly imperceptible particles, by analyzing the energy peaks from other easily detectable particles. The data is produced using MadGraph5_aMC@NLO, a program that randomly generates an event from the Large Hardon Collider, and its different energy levels are analyzed through ROOT, a data analysis tool from CERN.