1 code implementation • 5 May 2023 • Mariel Pettee, Sowmya Thanvantri, Benjamin Nachman, David Shih, Matthew R. Buckley, Jack H. Collins
Large-scale astrophysics datasets present an opportunity for new machine learning techniques to identify regions of interest that might otherwise be overlooked by traditional searches.
Supervised Anomaly Detection Weakly-supervised Anomaly Detection
no code implementations • 20 Oct 2022 • Jack H. Collins, Yifeng Huang, Simon Knapen, Benjamin Nachman, Daniel Whiteson
In collider-based particle and nuclear physics experiments, data are produced at such extreme rates that only a subset can be recorded for later analysis.
no code implementations • 22 Sep 2021 • Jack H. Collins
I present a Variational Autoencoder (VAE) trained on collider physics data (specifically boosted $W$ jets), with reconstruction error given by an approximation to the Earth Movers Distance (EMD) between input and output jets.
no code implementations • 5 Apr 2021 • Jack H. Collins, Pablo Martín-Ramiro, Benjamin Nachman, David Shih
We examine the ability of the two methods to identify a new physics signal at different cross sections in a fully hadronic resonance search.
1 code implementation • 7 May 2018 • Jack H. Collins, Kiel Howe, Benjamin Nachman
Despite extensive theoretical motivation for physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM) of particle physics, searches at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have found no significant evidence for BSM physics.
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Experiment