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September 19, 2016

B-Quark Tagging Algorithm Characterization

Michael Dobbs
Sonoma State University

Darwin 103
4:00 PM

SSU student Michael Dobbs will discuss his summer research conducted at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), the largest physics laboratory and particle collider in the world, and describe how machine learning algorithms are a new and efficient way to capture interesting physics events in the ATLAS detector.

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