Understanding proton complexity and finding cracks in the Standard Model

Authors

Cilicia Uzziel Perez ⋅ US Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Alabama, USA

Abstract

The search for new physics in Large Hadron Collider typically involves looking at various Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) models and comparing their predictions to that of LHC data. To do a search successfully, the Standard Model background should first be accurately modeled by Monte Carlo Generators. While there have been many years of effort put onto this task, there are some sectors in our computational predictions that still need work. What role do precision measurements have in improving the modelling of background? How do they help us understand the complexity of a proton, how they break and form new particles that we detect? How good are our current modelling capabilities in describing reality? In this talk, I want to go through some precision measurements in the LHC and some recent improvements in the state of the art modelling of some challenging processes where we expect to find new physics.

About the Speaker

Cilicia Uzziel Perez, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Alabama, USA

Uzziel Perez is a Graduate Research Assistant at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Alabama. They are based at CERN. Their research interests include Standard Model Precision Measurements, Machine Learning for Particle Physics and Searches for Exotic Physics. In lay terms, they are interested in seeing if our current understanding of what makes "us" and the universe up is accurate in their predictions. They use time-tested analysis tools to do research and are exploring new techniques such as using neural networks to infer and gain new insights from the data collected from the CMS detector, one of the general-purpose detectors in the Large Hadron Collider. On their free time, they like to hike mountains, do wild swimming, find unexplored paths, and write about science, nature, being human, comedy and everything else that they find interesting.

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Issue

2021: Proceedings of the 39th Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas Physics Conference

Article ID

SPP-2021-INV-3B-01

Section

Invited Presentations

Published

2021-09-18

How to Cite

[1]

CU Perez, Understanding proton complexity and finding cracks in the Standard Model, Proceedings of the Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas 39, SPP-2021-INV-3B-01 (2021). URL: https://proceedings.spp-online.org/article/view/SPP-2021-INV-3B-01.