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week 11/12: Writing and discussion
 
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''' Supervisors:'''  Olga Igonkina (staf) and Joern Mahlstedt (PhD student)
 
 
 
''' Research description: '''
 
 
The Standard Model of particle physics assumes that the world consists of leptons and quarks that
 
are elementary particles. However, if they would be made of smaller particles, preons, that would
 
explain the leptons and quarks mass hierarchy that we measure. Then leptons and quarks would be
 
the lowest energetic states of preon combinations and more higher energy excited states would
 
exist.
 
We are looking for these excited states using the results of the ATLAS experiment.
 
In this bachelor project new variables will be tested which can discriminate between the signal
 
and the Standard Model background in events with at least 3 leptons.
 
These variables can be used afterwards to increase the sensitivity of the search and to set
 
better limits on the model parameters in case no excited leptons are discovered.
 
During the project the student will learn to run over MC generator events with a program called
 
Rivet, which is based on C++.
 
  
  

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