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In this paper, we address the challenge of sampling in scenarios where limited resources prevent exhaustive measurement across all subjects. We consider a setting where samples are drawn from multiple groups, each following a distribution…

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Bayesian neural networks (BNNs) have received an increased interest in the last years. In BNNs, a complete posterior distribution of the unknown weight and bias parameters of the network is produced during the training stage. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Yunshi Huang , Emilie Chouzenoux , Victor Elvira , Jean-Christophe Pesquet

In this work we investigate the implication of low-energy precision measurements on the quark-lepton charged currents in general neutrino interactions with sterile neutrinos in effective field theories. The physics in low-energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-02 Tong Li , Xiao-Dong Ma , Michael A. Schmidt

We use a newly released version of the SuperBayeS code to analyze the impact of the choice of priors and the influence of various constraints on the statistical conclusions for the preferred values of the parameters of the Constrained MSSM.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-02-03 R. Trotta , F. Feroz , M. P. Hobson , L. Roszkowski , R. Ruiz de Austri

We consider the cross section in Fourier space, conjugate to the outgoing hadron's transverse momentum, where convolutions of transverse momentum dependent parton distribution functions and fragmentation functions become simple products.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 Leonard Gamberg , Daniel Boer , Bernhard Musch , Alexei Prokudin

The Standard Model effective field theory (SMEFT) provides a general framework to include the dynamics of the beyond standard model physics residing at a certain higher energy scale $\Lambda$. We study the top-quark production along with a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-07 Monoranjan Guchait , Arnab Roy

We investigate constraints on couplings of Standard Model effective field theory (SMEFT) operators contributing to $Wtb$ effective vertex at tree level. We study the one-loop level impact of these couplings on the low-energy flavour…

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We study the power of a Tera-$Z$ run at FCC-ee for indirectly detecting or constraining heavy new physics. Our main finding is that nearly every new particle which matches at tree level to dimension-six operators of the Standard Model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-11 Lukas Allwicher , Matthew McCullough , Sophie Renner

Recent work on weighted model counting has been very successfully applied to the problem of probabilistic inference in Bayesian networks. The probability distribution is encoded into a Boolean normal form and compiled to a target language,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-10-19 Giso H. Dal , Peter J. F. Lucas

We investigate the properties of a sequential Monte Carlo method where the particle weight that appears in the algorithm is estimated by a positive, unbiased estimator. We present broadly-applicable convergence results, including a central…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-08-26 Paul B. Rohrbach , Robert L. Jack

We estimate the impact of asymmetry measurements of Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering (DVCS) with transversely polarized proton beam taken at a future Electron Ion Collider in China (EicC) on the extraction of Compton Form Factors (CFFs).…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-22 Xu Cao , Jinlong Zhang

The $SU(2)_L\times U(1)_Y$ invariance of the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) predicts multiple restrictions in the space of Wilson coefficients of $U(1)_{em}$ invariant effective lagrangians such as the Low-energy Effective…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-17 Siddhartha Karmakar , Amol Dighe , Rick S. Gupta

Frequentist and likelihood methods of inference based on the multivariate skew-normal model encounter several technical difficulties with this model. In spite of the popularity of this class of densities, there are no broadly satisfactory…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-02-06 Brunero Liseo , Antonio Parisi

The SMEFT provides a general framework to search for new physics beyond the current reach of direct detection. One such form of new physics is quantum gravity. Based on dimensional analysis, one would expect the prediction that the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-18 Lydia Brenner , Abhishek Chikkaballi , Astrid Eichhorn , Shouryya Ray

We present a new analysis of parton distributions of the proton. This incorporates a wide range of new data, an improved treatment of heavy flavours and a re-examination of prompt photon production. The new set (MRST) shows systematic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 A. D. Martin , R. G. Roberts , W. J. Stirling , R. S. Thorne

We present a novel approach for constrained Bayesian inference. Unlike current methods, our approach does not require convexity of the constraint set. We reduce the constrained variational inference to a parametric optimization over the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-09-27 Oluwasanmi Koyejo , Joydeep Ghosh

The Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) is a powerful tool to search for new physics in a model-independent way. We explore the synergies arising from different types of observables in a combined, global SMEFT fit. Specifically,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-13 Cornelius Grunwald , Gudrun Hiller , Kevin Kröninger , Lara Nollen

The aim of this paper is to introduce two widely applicable regularization methods based on the direct modification of weight matrices. The first method, Weight Reinitialization, utilizes a simplified Bayesian assumption with partially…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Patrik Reizinger , Bálint Gyires-Tóth

The concept of weighted asymmetries is revisited for semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering. We consider the cross section in Fourier space, conjugate to the outgoing hadron's transverse momentum, where convolutions of transverse momentum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-28 Daniel Boer , Leonard Gamberg , Bernhard Musch , Alexei Prokudin

We apply the new formulation of heavy quark effective field theory (HQEFT) to the inclusive decays of bottom hadrons. The long-term ambiguity of using heavy quark mass or heavy hadron mass for inclusive decays is clarified within the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-28 Y. A. Yan , Y. L. Wu , W. Y. Wang