8–13 Jun 2025
America/Winnipeg timezone
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Not So Straightforward: Linear Fits in Real Life

13 Jun 2025, 10:00
15m
Oral (Non-Student) / Orale (non-étudiant(e)) Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD) (PPD) F1-1 Particle physics at colliders II and muon g-2 | Physique des particules aux collisionneurs II et muon g-2 (PPD)

Speaker

Caleb Miller

Description

Imagine constructing a cosmic ray detector: a few layers of scintillator, some SiPMs, and an excited student wiring it all together. Easy! Your design is segmented to allow for tracking, but what is the best way to reconstruct that track? How do you properly account for all positions within a scintillator volume being equally likely? Come join me for a light-hearted talk about how to draw straight lines and how this applies to searches for new physics in proposed long-lived particle experiments.

Keyword-1 LLPs
Keyword-2 Fitting
Keyword-3 MATHUSLA

Author

Caleb Miller

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