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Searches for the Supersymmetric Partner of the Top Quark, Dark Matter and Dark Energy at the ATLAS Experiment

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The chapter introduces the Standard Model of Particle Physics which describes the electroweak and the strong interaction as well as all currently known matter particles.

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    Since neutrinos only interact weakly, right-handed neutrinos do not interact within the SM at all.

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    The European Organisation for Nuclear Research in Geneva, Switzerland, originally: Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire.

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Köhler, N.M. (2019). The Standard Model of Particle Physics. In: Searches for the Supersymmetric Partner of the Top Quark, Dark Matter and Dark Energy at the ATLAS Experiment. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25988-4_2

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