Computer Reconstruction

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Detectors record millions of points of data during collision events. For this reason, it is necessary to let a computer look at this data, and figure out the most likely particle paths and decays, as well as anomalies from the expected behavior.

This is a computer reconstruction of a proton-antiproton collision event that produced an electron-positron pair as well as many other particles. This particular event, and many other like it, provided evidence for the Z boson, one of the carrier particles for the collision producing top quarks.

It is through analysis of events like these that physicists have found evidence for the Standard Model.

Next Back Look at another computer reconstruction of quarks and antiquarks combining to form mesons and baryons, providing evidence for gluons.