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Anomaly detection in high-energy physics is essential for identifying new physics beyond the Standard Model. Autoencoders provide a signal-agnostic approach but are limited by the topology of their latent space. This work explores…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-17 Vishal S. Ngairangbam , Błażej Rozwoda , Kazuki Sakurai , Michael Spannowsky

The interpretation of Large Hadron Collider (LHC) data in the framework of Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) theories is hampered by the need to run computationally expensive event generators and detector simulators. Performing statistically…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-14 Gianfranco Bertone , Marc Peter Deisenroth , Jong Soo Kim , Sebastian Liem , Roberto Ruiz de Austri , Max Welling

We introduce a novel anomaly search method based on (i) jet tagging to select interesting events, which are less likely to be produced by background processes; (ii) comparison of the untagged and tagged samples to single out features (such…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-02 J. A. Aguilar-Saavedra

Novelty detection is the machine learning task to recognize data, which belong to an unknown pattern. Complementary to supervised learning, it allows to analyze data model-independently. We demonstrate the potential role of novelty…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-29 Jan Hajer , Ying-Ying Li , Tao Liu , He Wang

Machine learning (ML) is a rapidly growing area of research in the field of particle physics, with a vast array of applications at the CERN LHC. ML has changed the way particle physicists conduct searches and measurements as a versatile…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-10-01 Javier M. Duarte

Anomaly Detection is becoming increasingly popular within the experimental physics community. At experiments such as the Large Hadron Collider, anomaly detection is at the forefront of finding new physics beyond the Standard Model. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-20 C. Fanelli , J. Giroux , Z. Papandreou

The discovery potential of the LHC is investigated for the minimal anomaly-mediated supersymmetry breaking (mAMSB) scenario, using the ATLAS fast detector simulator, including track reconstruction and particle identification. Generic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-11-27 A. J. Barr , B. C. Allanach , C. G. Lester , M. A. Parker , P. Richardson

Given the lack of evidence for new particle discoveries at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), it is critical to broaden the search program. A variety of model-independent searches have been proposed, adding sensitivity to unexpected signals.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-13 Anders Andreassen , Benjamin Nachman , David Shih

The use of AI and ML for scientific applications is currently a very exciting and dynamic field. Much of this excitement for HPC has focused on ML applications whose analysis and classification generate very large numbers of flops. Others…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Drew Schmidt , Bronson Messer , M. Todd Young , Michael Matheson

With increasing energy and luminosity available at the Large Hadron collider (LHC), we get a chance to take a pure bottom-up approach solely based on data. This will extend the scope of our understanding about Nature without relying on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-16 Minho Kim , Pyungwon Ko , Jae-hyeon Park , Myeonghun Park

Anomaly detection is used for identifying data that deviate from `normal' data patterns. Its usage on classical data finds diverse applications in many important areas like fraud detection, medical diagnoses, data cleaning and surveillance.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-18 Nana Liu , Patrick Rebentrost

Anomaly detection is referred to as a process in which the aim is to detect data points that follow a different pattern from the majority of data points. Anomaly detection methods suffer from several well-known challenges that hinder their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Kasra Babaei , Zhi Yuan Chen , Tomas Maul

Anomaly detection is a prominent data preprocessing step in learning applications for correction and/or removal of faulty data. Automating this data type with the use of autoencoders could increase the quality of the dataset by isolating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Benjamin Smith , Kevin Cant , Gloria Wang

We introduce a potentially powerful new method of searching for new physics at the LHC, using autoencoders and unsupervised deep learning. The key idea of the autoencoder is that it learns to map "normal" events back to themselves, but…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-22 Marco Farina , Yuichiro Nakai , David Shih

Unsupervised anomaly detection could be crucial in future analyses searching for rare phenomena in large datasets, as for example collected at the LHC. To this end, we introduce a physics inspired variational autoencoder (VAE) architecture…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-08 Blaž Bortolato , Barry M. Dillon , Jernej F. Kamenik , Aleks Smolkovič

Photonic Quantum Computers provides several benefits over the discrete qubit-based paradigm of quantum computing. By using the power of continuous-variable computing we build an anomaly detection model to use on searches for New Physics.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-01 Andrew Blance , Michael Spannowsky

Searches for anomalies are a significant motivation for the LHC and help define key analysis steps, including triggers. We discuss specific examples how LHC anomalies can be defined through probability density estimates, evaluated in a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-25 Thorsten Buss , Barry M. Dillon , Thorben Finke , Michael Krämer , Alessandro Morandini , Alexander Mück , Ivan Oleksiyuk , Tilman Plehn

Anomaly detection is a crucial task in machine learning that involves identifying unusual patterns or events in data. It has numerous applications in various domains such as finance, healthcare, and cybersecurity. With the advent of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-07 Julien Mellaerts

Discoveries of new phenomena often involve a dedicated search for a hypothetical physics signature. Recently, novel deep learning techniques have emerged for anomaly detection in the absence of a signal prior. However, by ignoring signal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-14 Sang Eon Park , Dylan Rankin , Silviu-Marian Udrescu , Mikaeel Yunus , Philip Harris

We present possible strategies for anomaly detection of rare particle decays and exotic hadrons, such as pentaquarks, in low-background environments such as those characteristic of diffractive events and ultraperipheral \pp, \pA, or \AAcoll…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-01 Simone Ragoni , Brianna Kinkaid , Janet Seger , Christopher Anson , David Tlusty