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 …

[HTML][HTML] Machine learning for anomaly detection in particle physics

V Belis, P Odagiu, TK Aarrestad - Reviews in Physics, 2024 - Elsevier
The detection of out-of-distribution data points is a common task in particle physics. It is used
for monitoring complex particle detectors or for identifying rare and unexpected events that …

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 …

PC-JeDi: Diffusion for particle cloud generation in high energy physics

M Leigh, D Sengupta, G Quétant, JA Raine, K Zoch… - SciPost Physics, 2024 - scipost.org
In this paper, we present a new method to efficiently generate jets in High Energy Physics
called PC-JeDi. This method utilises score-based diffusion models in conjunction with …

Autoencoders on field-programmable gate arrays for real-time, unsupervised new physics detection at 40 MHz at the Large Hadron Collider

E Govorkova, E Puljak, T Aarrestad, T James… - Nature Machine …, 2022 - nature.com
To study the physics of fundamental particles and their interactions, the Large Hadron
Collider was constructed at CERN, where protons collide to create new particles measured …

Anomaly detection in high-energy physics using a quantum autoencoder

VS Ngairangbam, M Spannowsky, M Takeuchi - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
The lack of evidence for new interactions and particles at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
has motivated the high-energy physics community to explore model-agnostic data-analysis …

[HTML][HTML] Anomaly detection search for new resonances decaying into a Higgs boson and a generic new particle X in hadronic final states using s= 13 TeV pp collisions …

G Aad, B Abbott, DC Abbott, K Abeling, SH Abidi… - Physical Review …, 2023 - repo.scoap3.org
A search is presented for a heavy resonance Y decaying into a Standard Model Higgs
boson H and a new particle X in a fully hadronic final state. The full Large Hadron Collider …

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 …

CURTAINs flows for flows: Constructing unobserved regions with maximum likelihood estimation

D Sengupta, S Klein, JA Raine, T Golling - SciPost Physics, 2024 - scipost.org
Abstract Model independent techniques for constructing background data templates using
generative models have shown great promise for use in searches for new physics processes …

Full phase space resonant anomaly detection

E Buhmann, C Ewen, G Kasieczka, V Mikuni… - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
Physics beyond the Standard Model that is resonant in one or more dimensions has been a
longstanding focus of countless searches at colliders and beyond. Recently, many new …