Strange Image
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Sidedriver
Peculiar image needs clarifying.
https://talk.higgshunters.org/?_ga=1.146474740.1345793026.1467646012#/subjects/AHH0000linPosted
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Whoandwhatitis
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If you check the tracker in Normal view, you can see that there is a lot of activity in this area around 45° (or two o'clock). A pattern of line-like events on the detector in the tracking chamber. I think that this is indeed an interesting object because we see no other high-energy particles aside from the muons and the yellow splotch.
The big splotch of yellow indicates a lot of energy in the electromagnetic spectrometer, and the yellow rectangle in the muon spectrometer area shows us that this is a very energetic photon.
You can find information about the various detectors and the layout of the ATLAS detector in the FAQ and on the "How a detector works" page of the ATLAS collaboration website.
It's too bad there isn't another photon indicated here, because the Higgs boson is allowed to decay (very infrequently) to two photons. I have compiled a collection such of objects in Bi-photon events.
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