NeuroBayes ^® makes an important contribution to the long sought for discovery of rare process.

According to the current physical theory of the world, matter is made up of six different quarks and six leptons. Only the lightest of these elementary particles make up the world surrounding us, whereas the heavier ones decayed shortly after the big bang. Evidence for these particles can only be found at powerful particle accelerators.

Physical theories are always then put to a hard test when expected processes prove very hard to find. The production of single top quarks -the heaviest known quark type- was such an eagerly sought for discovery. This process is so rare that it is masked by others that are a lot more frequent. Therefore to find it, it was not sufficient to collect further data from collisions at the particle accelerator of the Fermilab. A complex system of ingenious implements for identifying this rare process also had to be developed.

In this system NeuroBayes^® is employed simultaneously at several points and was thus able to contribute essentially the discovery, with which physicists once again succeeded in confirming their expectations and thus our established view on the world.

You can find the CDF-website under this link link and the publication here.