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Open AccessImpact assessment of self-medication on COVID-19 prevalence in Gauteng, South Africa, using an age-structured disease transmission modelling framework
To assess the impact of self-medication on the transmission dynamics of COVID-19 across different age groups, examine the interplay of vaccination and self-medication in disease spread, and identify the age gr...
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Anomalies in particle physics and their implications for physics beyond the standard model
The standard model (SM) of particle physics is the mathematical description of the fundamental constituents and interactions of matter. Its last missing particle, the Higgs boson, was observed in 2012. However...
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Open AccessFeasibility of the observation of a heavy scalar through the fully hadronic final state at the LHeC
The proposed future Large Hadron electron collider provides sufficient center of mass energies, \(\sqrt{s}\) ...
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Open AccessBig data- and artificial intelligence-based hot-spot analysis of COVID-19: Gauteng, South Africa, as a case study
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has developed into a pandemic. Data-driven techniques can be used to inform and guide public health decision- and policy-makers. In generalizing the spread of a virus ov...
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Can Post-vaccination Sentiment Affect the Acceptance of Booster Jab?
In this paper, Twitter posts discussing the COVID-19 vaccine booster shot from nine African countries were classified according to sentiments to understand the effect of citizens’ sentiments towards accepting ...
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Open AccessUnveiling hidden physics at the LHC
The field of particle physics is at the crossroads. The discovery of a Higgs-like boson completed the Standard Model (SM), but the lacking observation of convincing resonances Beyond the SM (BSM) offers no gui...
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Open AccessHarnessing Artificial Intelligence to assess the impact of nonpharmaceutical interventions on the second wave of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 pandemic across the world
In the present paper, we aimed to determine the influence of various non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) enforced during the first wave of COVID-19 across countries on the spreading rate of COVID-19 during...
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Open AccessThe anomalous production of multi-leptons and its impact on the measurement of Wh production at the LHC
Anomalies in multi-lepton final states at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have been reported in Refs. (von Buddenbrock et al., J Phys G 45(11):115003, ar**v:1711.07874
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Open AccessThe emergence of multi-lepton anomalies at the LHC and their compatibility with new physics at the EW scale
A recent study [1] has shown that a simplified model predicting a heavy scalar of mass 270 GeV (H ) that decays to a Standard Model (SM) Higgs boson in association with a scalar singlet of mass 150 GeV (S) can ac...
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Open AccessPhenomenological signatures of additional scalar bosons at the LHC
We investigate the search prospects for new scalars beyond the standard model at the large hadron collider (LHC). In these studies two real scalars S and
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Open AccessMeasuring anomalous Wtb couplings at \(e^-p\) collider
We study the accuracy with which the lowest order CP conserving anomalous Wtb couplings in the single top-quark production at the proposed large hadron electron collider can be probed. The one-dimensional distrib...
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Open AccessCornering dimension-6 HV V interactions at high energy LHC: the role of event ratios
We suggest a way of improving the probes on dimension-6 CP-conserving HV V interactions (V = W,Z,γ),fromtheLHCdataontheHiggsbosontobeavailableinthe 14 TeV run with an integrated luminosity of 3000 fb−1. We find t...
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Open AccessExploration of the tensor structure of the Higgs boson coupling to weak bosons in e + e − collisions
Probing signatures of anomalous interactions of the Higgs boson with pairs of weak vector bosons is an important goal of an e + e − collider commissioned as a Higgs...
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Prospects of Searches for the Higgs Boson at the LHC
One of the most exciting prospects for the Large Hadron Collider is to observe the Higgs boson. The most important experimental characteristics of the two general-purpose detectors, the CMS and ATLAS experimen...
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Prospects of Higgs Physics at the LHC
The search for the Higgs boson is a major physics goal of the future Large Hadron Collider. The discovery potential is described as a function of the Higgs mass. It is shown that a Standard Model Higgs boson c...
