Computer Reconstruction
Detectors record millions of points of data during collision events.
For this reason, it is necessary to let a computer look at this data,
and figure out the
most likely particle paths and decays, as well as anomalies from the
expected behavior.
This is a computer reconstruction of a proton-antiproton
collision event that
produced an electron-positron pair as well as many other particles. This
particular event, and many other like it, provided evidence
for the Z boson,
one of the carrier particles for the collision producing top quarks.
It is through analysis of events like these that physicists have found
evidence for the Standard Model.
Look at another computer reconstruction
of quarks and antiquarks combining to form mesons and baryons,
providing evidence for gluons.