{"id":96339,"date":"2019-09-17T06:02:57","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T13:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/model-independence"},"modified":"2019-09-17T06:02:57","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T13:02:57","slug":"model-independence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/model-independence","title":{"rendered":"Model independence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/model-independence2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Particle physicists are planning the successor to CERN\u2019s Large Hadron Collider \u2013 but how will they deal with the deluge of data from a future machine and the proliferation of theoretical models? <strong>Michela Massimi<\/strong> explains why a new scientific methodology called \u201cmodel independence\u201d could hold the answer.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been an exciting few months for particle physicists. In May more than 600 researchers gathered in Granada, Spain, to discuss the <a href=\"https:\/\/europeanstrategyupdate.web.cern.ch\/\">European Particle Physics Strategy<\/a>, while in June <a href=\"https:\/\/home.cern\/\">CERN<\/a> held a meeting in Brussels, Belgium, to debate plans for the <a href=\"https:\/\/home.cern\/science\/accelerators\/future-circular-collider\">Future Circular Collider<\/a> (FCC). This giant machine \u2013 100 km in circumference and earmarked for the Geneva lab \u2013 is just one of several different projects (including those in astroparticle physics and machine learning) that particle physicists are working on to explore the frontiers of high-energy physics.<\/p>\n<p>CERN\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/home.cern\/science\/accelerators\/large-hadron-collider\">Large Hadron Collider<\/a> (LHC) has been collecting data from vast numbers of proton\u2013proton collisions since 2010 \u2013 first at an energy of 8 TeV and then 13 TeV during its second run. These have enabled scientists on the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlas.cern\/\">ATLAS<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/home.cern\/science\/experiments\/cms\">CMS<\/a> experiments at the LHC to discover the <a href=\"https:\/\/home.cern\/science\/physics\/higgs-boson\">Higgs boson<\/a> in 2012, while light has also been shed on other vital aspects of the <a href=\"https:\/\/home.cern\/science\/physics\/standard-model\">Standard Model<\/a> of particle physics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Particle physicists are planning the successor to CERN\u2019s Large Hadron Collider \u2013 but how will they deal with the deluge of data from a future machine and the proliferation of theoretical models? Michela Massimi explains why a new scientific methodology called \u201cmodel independence\u201d could hold the answer. It\u2019s been an exciting few months for particle [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}