AI boosts sensitivity to double-Higgs signatures occurring about once per trillion collisions

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Researchers are utilizing AI to enhance detection of double-Higgs signatures in particle collisions at the Large Hadron Collider, improving sensitivity to events occurring about once per trillion collisions. This work supports efforts to answer fundamental questions about the universe's stability.

Is the universe as stable as we think it is? That's one of the big questions that particle physicists worldwide are preparing to answer with the Large Hadron Collider, or LHC—the world's most powerful particle accelerator—when its upgrade is completed in about four years. In the meantime, researchers, including a cohort at the University of Michigan, are working to sharpen their analytical tools and techniques to make the most of the LHC's current and future data.