Higgs Combine Tool: Setting Limits on the Mass of the Doubly Charged Higgs Boson

The doubly charged Higgs boson is a theoretical particle that coulexist but has never been found. The Higgs Combine Tool (HCT) is a tool that uses Bayesian statistics to calculate limits based on particle accelerator data. I used 3000 inverse femtobarns of data which is the expected amount for the HL-LHC upgrade. I created text files that I fed into this tool that contained information about background, which are particles that look the same as the doubly charged Higgs boson, and how often I would expect the doubly charged Higgs boson to appear if it were to exist. Since these numbers vary depending on how much mass this Higgs has, I calculated different expected limits for different masses. This allowed me to calculate an expected lower limit on the mass of the doubly charged Higgs boson

Using the Higgs Combine Tool to Calculate Limits of the Cross Section of Doubly Charged Higgs Bosons

The Higgs Combine Tool (HCT) is a tool to calculate limits and do statistical analysis on the data collected by particle detectors. We create and edit data cards and then calculate the limit on the cross-section of the production of a particle, given a background estimate, using a Bayesian technique. We then used the HCT to create graphs to show the results more clearly. The specific type of analysis we used was a Markov Chain Monte Carlo calculation. We applied this to create preliminary sensitivities for the search for a doubly charged Higgs boson

Inequality of Mental and Emotional Health at IMSA

Residential living is one of the most distinguishing factors of IMSA that differentiates it from other public high schools. While this does promote independent living, several students often feel homesick when not being close to their homes. With students coming in from all over Illinois, those in the academy can live from 15 minutes to over five hours away from their home. This range in distances also offers a variety of ways that living at IMSA impacts students’ wellbeing. In this study, we will be addressing UNSDG 10: Reduced Inequalities, where we analyze the discrepancies as to how living away from home influences a student’s mental and emotional health. To do this, we will be surveying each class at IMSA (2020-22) on how they rate their mental/emotional health as well as how far away their home is from the academy. Using this data, we will interpret and draw conclusions on how the differences in home distance impact health as well as how these disparities fluctuate amongst sophomores, juniors, and seniors

Report of the Topical Group on Physics Beyond the Standard Model at Energy Frontier for Snowmass 2021

This is the Snowmass2021 Energy Frontier (EF) Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) report. It combines the EF topical group reports of EF08 (Model-specific explorations), EF09 (More general explorations), and EF10 (Dark Matter at Colliders). The report includes a general introduction to BSM motivations and the comparative prospects for proposed future experiments for a broad range of potential BSM models and signatures, including compositeness, SUSY, leptoquarks, more general new bosons and fermions, long-lived particles, dark matter, charged-lepton flavor violation, and anomaly detection

Report of the Topical Group on Physics Beyond the Standard Model at Energy Frontier for Snowmass 2021

International audienceThis is the Snowmass2021 Energy Frontier (EF) Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) report. It combines the EF topical group reports of EF08 (Model-specific explorations), EF09 (More general explorations), and EF10 (Dark Matter at Colliders). The report includes a general introduction to BSM motivations and the comparative prospects for proposed future experiments for a broad range of potential BSM models and signatures, including compositeness, SUSY, leptoquarks, more general new bosons and fermions, long-lived particles, dark matter, charged-lepton flavor violation, and anomaly detection

Report of the Topical Group on Physics Beyond the Standard Model at Energy Frontier for Snowmass 2021

International audienceThis is the Snowmass2021 Energy Frontier (EF) Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) report. It combines the EF topical group reports of EF08 (Model-specific explorations), EF09 (More general explorations), and EF10 (Dark Matter at Colliders). The report includes a general introduction to BSM motivations and the comparative prospects for proposed future experiments for a broad range of potential BSM models and signatures, including compositeness, SUSY, leptoquarks, more general new bosons and fermions, long-lived particles, dark matter, charged-lepton flavor violation, and anomaly detection

Report of the topical group on physics beyond the standard model at energy frontier for snowmass 2021

This is the Snowmass2021 Energy Frontier (EF) Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) report. It combines the EF topical group reports of EF08 (Model-specific explorations), EF09 (More general explorations), and EF10 (Dark Matter at Colliders). The report includes a general introduction to BSM motivations and the comparative prospects for proposed future experiments for a broad range of potential BSM models and signatures, including compositeness, SUSY, leptoquarks, more general new bosons and fermions, long-lived particles, dark matter, charged-lepton flavor violation, and anomaly detection