{"id":3962,"date":"2024-04-06T01:34:43","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T23:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepttp.avidakizomba.co.za\/?p=3962"},"modified":"2025-06-09T12:18:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T10:18:54","slug":"deep-learning-its-application-to-searches-beyond-the-standard-model-with-the-atlas-detector-at-the-large-hadron-collider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/2024\/04\/06\/deep-learning-its-application-to-searches-beyond-the-standard-model-with-the-atlas-detector-at-the-large-hadron-collider\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep Learning &amp; Its Application To Searches Beyond The Standard Model With The ATLAS Detector At The Large Hadron Collider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Researcher<\/strong>: Asiphe Mzaza, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg<br \/><strong>Supervisors<\/strong>: Prof. Bruce Mellado, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg<\/p><p>Anomalies in the observations of Run 1 and Run 2 data from the ATLAS detector at the LHC suggest physics beyond the Standard Model. The Madala Hypothesis, attempts to explain these anomalies with new hypothetical scalars H and S with 2mh&lt;mH&lt;2mH and mh&lt;mS&lt;mH, where mh and mt are the masses of the Higgs boson and top-quark. These bosons are being searched in the leptonic decay channels, such as H\u2192SS\u21924W [1], which have extremely low signal-to-background ratios. A discriminative machine learning algorithm is developed to distinguish between signal and background. Specifically, the viability of a deep neural network is assessed. A neural network model with useful diagnostic power is constructed using simulations of the di-lepton decay process.<\/p><p><br \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researcher: Asiphe Mzaza, University of the Witwatersrand, JohannesburgSupervisors: Prof. Bruce Mellado, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg Anomalies in the observations of Run 1 and Run 2 data from the ATLAS detector at the LHC suggest physics beyond the Standard Model. The Madala Hypothesis, attempts to explain these<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-capstone-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4446,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3962\/revisions\/4446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}