How Artificial Intelligence Can Supercharge the Search for New Particles
Reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine‘s Abstractions blog.
he Large Hadron Collider (LHC) smashes a billion pairs of protons together each second. Occasionally the machine may rattle reality enough to have a few of those collisions generate something that’s never been seen before. But because these events are by their nature a surprise, physicists don’t know exactly what to look for. They worry that in, a particle physicist at New York University who works with the ATLAS experiment at CERN.
