Machine learning in the search for new fundamental physics

G Karagiorgi, G Kasieczka, S Kravitz… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Compelling experimental evidence suggests the existence of new physics beyond the well-
established and tested standard model of particle physics. Various current and upcoming …

The LHC Olympics 2020 a community challenge for anomaly detection in high energy physics

G Kasieczka, B Nachman, D Shih… - Reports on progress …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
A new paradigm for data-driven, model-agnostic new physics searches at colliders is
emerging, and aims to leverage recent breakthroughs in anomaly detection and machine …

Anomaly detection with density estimation

B Nachman, D Shih - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
We leverage recent breakthroughs in neural density estimation to propose a new
unsupervised ANOmaly detection with Density Estimation (ANODE) technique. By …

Jet substructure at the Large Hadron Collider: a review of recent advances in theory and machine learning

AJ Larkoski, I Moult, B Nachman - Physics Reports, 2020 - Elsevier
Jet substructure has emerged to play a central role at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC),
where it has provided numerous innovative new ways to search for new physics and to …

Classifying anomalies through outer density estimation

A Hallin, J Isaacson, G Kasieczka, C Krause… - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
We propose a new model-agnostic search strategy for physics beyond the standard model
(BSM) at the LHC, based on a novel application of neural density estimation to anomaly …

Simulation assisted likelihood-free anomaly detection

A Andreassen, B Nachman, D Shih - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
Given the lack of evidence for new particle discoveries at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), it
is critical to broaden the search program. A variety of model-independent searches have …

The dark machines anomaly score challenge: benchmark data and model independent event classification for the large hadron collider

T Aarrestad, M van Beekveld, M Bona, A Boveia… - SciPost Physics, 2022 - scipost.org
We describe the outcome of a data challenge conducted as part of the Dark Machines
Initiative and the Les Houches 2019 workshop on Physics at TeV colliders. The challenged …

Dijet Resonance Search with Weak Supervision Using Collisions in the ATLAS Detector

G Aad, B Abbott, DC Abbott, A Abed Abud, K Abeling… - Physical review …, 2020 - APS
This Letter describes a search for narrowly resonant new physics using a machine-learning
anomaly detection procedure that does not rely on signal simulations for developing the …

Metric space of collider events

PT Komiske, EM Metodiev, J Thaler - Physical review letters, 2019 - APS
When are two collider events similar? Despite the simplicity and generality of this question,
there is no established notion of the distance between two events. To address this question …

Resonant anomaly detection without background sculpting

A Hallin, G Kasieczka, T Quadfasel, D Shih… - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
We introduce a new technique named latent CATHODE (LaCATHODE) for performing
“enhanced bump hunts,” a type of resonant anomaly search that combines conventional one …