Speaker
Andrew Haas
(New York University)
Description
Since the launch of HiggsHunters.org in November 2014, citizen science volunteers
have classified more than a million points of interest in images from the ATLAS experiment
at the LHC. Volunteers have been looking for displaced vertices and unusual features in images
recorded during LHC Run-1. We discuss the design of the project, its impact on the public,
and the surprising results of how the human volunteers performed relative to the computer
algorithms in identifying displaced secondary vertices.
| Primary Keyword (Mandatory) | Outreach |
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Primary author
Alan Barr
(University of Oxford (GB))
Co-author
Andrew Haas
(New York University)
