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    Wigner's Friend paradoxes: consistency with weak-contextual and weak-macroscopic realism models

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    Wigner's friend paradoxes highlight contradictions between measurements made by Friends inside a laboratory and superobservers outside a laboratory, who have access to an entangled state of the measurement apparatus. The contradictions lead to no-go theorems for observer-independent facts, thus challenging concepts of objectivity. Here, we examine the paradoxes from the perspective of establishing consistency with macroscopic realism. We present versions of the Brukner-Wigner-friend and Frauchiger-Renner paradoxes in which the spin-1/21/2 system measured by the Friends corresponds to two macroscopically distinct states. The local unitary operations UθU_{\theta} that determine the measurement setting θ\theta are carried out using nonlinear interactions, thereby ensuring measurements need only distinguish between the macroscopically distinct states. The macroscopic paradoxes are perplexing, seemingly suggesting there is no objectivity in a macroscopic limit. However, we demonstrate consistency with a contextual weak form of macroscopic realism (wMR): The premise wMR asserts that the system can be considered to have a definite spin outcome λθ\lambda_{\theta}, at the time after the system has undergone the unitary rotation UθU_{\theta} to prepare it in a suitable pointer basis. We further show that the paradoxical outcomes imply failure of deterministic macroscopic local realism, and arise when there are unitary interactions UθU_{\theta} occurring due to a change of measurement setting at both sites, with respect to the state prepared by each Friend. In models which validate wMR, there is a breakdown of a subset of the assumptions that constitute the Bell-Locality premise. A similar interpretation involving a weak contextual form of realism exists for the original paradoxes

    The Higgs Boson Reconstruction Technique in tt̄H(H →bb̄) Based On Boosted Decision Tree (BDT)

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    According to the Standard model, all quarks, charged leptons and W and Z bosons obtain their respective masses through their interaction with the Higgs field which gives rise to the Higgs boson. One of the important tests of the Standard Model is the measurement of the Yukawa coupling of the Higgs boson with the top quark. This coupling can be directly measured via the associated production process of pp→tt̄H
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