Rodrigo Alonso,
researcher and lecturer in physics
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Guess the particle at the CMS detector of LHC

Here's four events with the decay product particles of the four heaviest standard model particles. The particles are top quark (1), the Higgs boson (2), the Z boson (3)and the W boson (4) but which is which? You might want to look at the description of the CMS detector in the notes Particle Physics (Canonical Quantization, pdf)

Event 1

Particle coding: top quark = 1, Higgs boson = 2, Z boson = 3 , W boson = 4

Event 2

Particle coding: top quark = 1, Higgs boson = 2, Z boson = 3 , W boson = 4

Event 3

Particle coding: top quark = 1, Higgs boson = 2, Z boson = 3 , W boson = 4

Event 4

Particle coding: top quark = 1, Higgs boson = 2, Z boson = 3 , W boson = 4