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RE: A crash course on particle physics (towards our steemSTEM meetup at CERN) - 5 - The challenges of the searches for new phenomena
Thank you for the explanation. And what about the unexpected... If the selection is based on triggers... might we not miss something highly unusual (not expected, thus not programmed to trigger a recording)?
A significant fraction of recorded events is randomly recorded. That allows for the unexpected to happen :)
Aaah, that's good then... sometimes looking too closely at something, one misses what is going on the side. But of course, LHC scientists know that!
Yep, they know. We really want to be ready for anything ^^