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Testable Likelihoods for Beyond-the-Standard Model Fits

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2023-09-20 v1 Machine Learning

Abstract

Studying potential BSM effects at the precision frontier requires accurate transfer of information from low-energy measurements to high-energy BSM models. We propose to use normalising flows to construct likelihood functions that achieve this transfer. Likelihood functions constructed in this way provide the means to generate additional samples and admit a ``trivial'' goodness-of-fit test in form of a χ2\chi^2 test statistic. Here, we study a particular form of normalising flow, apply it to a multi-modal and non-Gaussian example, and quantify the accuracy of the likelihood function and its test statistic.

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@article{arxiv.2309.10365,
  title  = {Testable Likelihoods for Beyond-the-Standard Model Fits},
  author = {Anja Beck and Méril Reboud and Danny van Dyk},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.10365},
  year   = {2023}
}

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11 pages, 7 figures

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