{"id":4541,"date":"2025-05-22T07:34:36","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T05:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/?p=4541"},"modified":"2025-05-22T07:34:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T05:34:37","slug":"classification-problems-within-particle-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/2025\/05\/22\/classification-problems-within-particle-physics\/","title":{"rendered":"Classification Problems Within Particle Physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Researcher<\/strong>: Mafanedza Nephawe, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg<br><strong>Supervisor<\/strong>: Prof Prince Ntimeni<\/p><p>The Higgs boson, a fundamental particle, gives mass to others and was confirmed in 2012 at<br>CERN[1, 5]. The associated Higgs field explains mass differences and supports the Standard<br>Model. [2]Large Hadron Collider channels target specific particles, ZH (associated production of<br>top quarks with Higgs and Z bosons). This project introduces CEPC, a circular electron-positron<br>collider in China, aiming to study particle properties[5, 3]. AI and machine learning analyze detector<br>data to understand the Higgs boson and explore beyond the standard model. The research<br>aims to employ a deep neural network for model-independent analysis of the Standard Model<br>Higgs, focusing on signal-background separation in ZH channels at CEPC with a 40% branching<br>ratio at 95 GeV.<\/p><div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Prince-1024x512.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4542\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Prince-1024x512.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Prince-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Prince-768x384.png 768w, https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Prince-600x300.png 600w, https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Prince.png 1388w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div><p>&nbsp;<\/p><p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researcher: Mafanedza Nephawe, University of the Witwatersrand, JohannesburgSupervisor: Prof Prince Ntimeni The Higgs boson, a fundamental particle, gives mass to others and was confirmed in 2012 atCERN[1, 5]. The associated Higgs field explains mass differences and supports the StandardModel. [2]Large Hadron Collider channels target specific particles, ZH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4541","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\/4541","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4543,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4541\/revisions\/4543"}],"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=4541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}