Model-Independent Searches Using Matrix Element Ranking
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2014-08-29 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract
Thus far the LHC experiments have yet to discover beyond-the-standard-model physics. This motivates efforts to search for new physics in model independent ways. In this spirit, we describe procedures for using a variant of the Matrix Element Method to search for new physics without regard to a specific signal hypothesis. To make the resulting variables more intuitive, we also describe how these variables can be "flattened", which makes the resulting distributions more visually meaningful.
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@article{arxiv.1408.6572,
title = {Model-Independent Searches Using Matrix Element Ranking},
author = {Dipsikha Debnath and James S. Gainer and Konstantin T. Matchev},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.6572},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
6 pages, 5 figures. Proceedings of the Second Annual Conference on Large Hadron Collider Physics (LHCP 2014), Columbia University, New York, June 2-7, 2014