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Untangling Particles with Artificial Intelligence

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In 2022, after a series of upgrades, CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is expected to turn back on for a final run and, once again, furiously smash particles together in search of new clues about the fundamental structure of our universe. When the LHC turns on, it will be operating at its highest energies yet: the collider will crash together protons every 25 nanoseconds, leading to the production of hundreds of particles passing through the detector. To help with the deluge of data, scientists are turning to new artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. We met with Jennifer Ngadiuba, a Robert A. Millikan Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Physics at Caltech, over Zoom to learn more about these developments. Ngadiuba is also supported by the U.S. Department of Energy through Fermilab's Machine Intelligence group.