Physics Department

Higgs Boson Detection Using Machine Learning with Focus on Important Data Features and Physics

Introduction and Background The Higgs boson, a fundamental particle in the Standard Model, was theorized in 1964 by Peter Higgs and others to explain the origin of mass through the Higgs field. Its discovery on July 4, 2012, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN marked a significant […]

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Nigeria’s Conservative Path to Solid-State Battery Leadership

Building Nigeria’s Conservative Path to Solid-State Battery Leadership The global race for next-generation batteries is accelerating, and solid-state batteries (SSBs) are at the center of it. From electric vehicles to grid storage, countries are investing billions to secure supply chains, intellectual property, and manufacturing capabilities. For Nigeria, the opportunity is realbut the path forward does

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Nigeria’s Solid-State Battery Moment: From Minerals to Manufacturing

Nigeria is standing at the edge of a rare industrial inflection point. With billions of dollars flowing into lithium processing, newly announced rare-earth facilities, and a growing base of local companies, the country has quietly assembled the upstream ingredients needed to participate in the global solid-state battery (SSB) revolution. Few African nations can claim the

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