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Chris Hays is a professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford, specializing in the research of fundamental particle interactions. He is a member of the ATLAS experiment at CERN and played a crucial role in the 2012 discovery of the Higgs boson through the analysis of decay channels involving W bosons. Hays has convened the LHC Higgs working group to develop frameworks for interpreting Higgs boson measurements and has actively participated in recent ATLAS publications implementing these frameworks. His current research includes studying the pair production of tau-leptons, particularly focusing on high invariant mass productions associated with b-quarks. His work contributes to measurements that are sensitive to new interactions that primarily affect the generation of fermions and involves exploring measurements of third-generation fermions to uncover distinct interactions. Hays has also contributed to the CDF experiment at Fermilab Tevatron, where he performed precise measurements of the W boson mass, noting that the final measurement showed significant deviation from Standard Model predictions. He also serves as a tutor for second and third-year courses in quantum mechanics and nuclear particle physics at Corpus Christi and St Catherine's colleges, respectively.
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