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We introduce a framework that integrates both analytical and machine-learning approaches for calculating observables optimal for EFT and broader applications at the LHC. A new metric for evaluating the performance of these approaches has…

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With the LHC entering the precision era, focus on interpreting the measurements performed in an effective field theory holds key to testing the Standard Model. An effective field theory provides a well-defined theoretical formalism which…

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We describe the physics potential of $e^+e^-$ linear colliders in this report. These machines are planned to operate in the first phase at a center-of --mass energy of 500 GeV, before being scaled up to about 1 TeV. In the second phase of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-25 E. Accomando

The Future Circular Collider in the $\mathrm{e^{+}e^{-}}$ configuration offers the opportunity to significantly improve SM measurements with dedicated runs at the Z-pole, WW threshold, ZH (240 GeV), and $\mathrm{t}\bar{\mathrm{t}}$…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-08-18 Eduardo Ploerer

Event reconstruction is a central step in many particle physics experiments, turning detector observables into parameter estimates; for example estimating the energy of an interaction given the sensor readout of a detector. A corresponding…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-01-11 Philipp Eller , Aaron Fienberg , Jan Weldert , Garrett Wendel , Sebastian Böser , D. F. Cowen

Estimating the free energy, as well as other thermodynamic observables, is a key task in lattice field theories. Recently, it has been pointed out that deep generative models can be used in this context [1]. Crucially, these models allow…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-09-21 Kim A. Nicoli , Christopher Anders , Lena Funcke , Tobias Hartung , Karl Jansen , Pan Kessel , Shinichi Nakajima , Paolo Stornati

Future e+e- colliders give the promise of model-independent determinations of the couplings of the Higgs boson. In this paper, we present an improved formalism for extracting Higgs boson couplings from e+e- data, based on the Effective…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-28 Tim Barklow , Keisuke Fujii , Sunghoon Jung , Robert Karl , Jenny List , Tomohisa Ogawa , Michael E. Peskin , Junping Tian

We perform an effective field theory analysis of the $\tau^- \to \pi^- \pi^0 \nu_\tau$ decays, that includes the most general interactions between Standard Model fields up to dimension six, assuming left-handed neutrinos. We constrain as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-08 J. A. Miranda , P. Roig

The physics programme for a coming electron linear collider is dominated by events with final states containing many jets. We develop in this paper the opinion that the best approach is to optimise the independent measurement of the tracks…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-09-29 J-C. Brient , H. Videau

The main possibilities of investigation of leptons and bosons production in interaction of polarized photons are considered. The usage of $\gamma\gamma\to f\bar{f}[+\gamma]$ reactions for the luminosity measurement on linear photon collider…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-08-21 T. V. Shishkina

The process e+e- --> W+W- provides a valuable laboratory to test the Standard Model (SM) and to search for new physics. The most general helicity amplitudes for this process require the introduction of nine form-factors which we calculate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 K. Hagiwara , T. Hatsukano , S. Ishihara , R. Szalapski

Manifold learning and effective model building are generally viewed as fundamentally different types of procedure. After all, in one we build a simplified model of the data, in the other, we construct a simplified model of the another…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2024-11-26 David Peter Wallis Freeborn

We review the effective field theory approach to physics beyond the Standard Model using dimension-six operators. Topics include the choice of operator basis, electroweak boson pair production, precision electroweak physics (including…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-18 Scott Willenbrock , Cen Zhang

Effective field theory provides a way of parameterizing strong-field deviations from General Relativity that might be observable in the gravitational waves emitted in a black hole merger. To perform numerical simulations of mergers in such…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-01 Aron D. Kovacs , Harvey S. Reall

Simulating the full dynamics of a quantum field theory over a wide range of energies requires exceptionally large quantum computing resources. Yet for many observables in particle physics, perturbative techniques are sufficient to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-01 Christian W. Bauer , Marat Freytsis , Benjamin Nachman

Collisions at high-energy particle colliders are a traditionally fruitful source of exotic particle discoveries. Finding these rare particles requires solving difficult signal-versus-background classification problems, hence machine…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-18 Pierre Baldi , Peter Sadowski , Daniel Whiteson

The popularity of Machine Learning (ML) has been increasing in the last decades in almost every area, being the commercial and scientific fields the most notorious ones. Concerning particle physics, ML has been proved as a useful resource…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-12-17 Xabier Cid Vidal , Lorena Dieste Maroñas , Álvaro Dósil Suárez

We performed a detailed analysis of the process $e^+e^-\to \ell \nu q\bar{q}'$ where we included all tree level Feynman diagrams that contribute to this final state. We studied the sensitivity of this process to anomalous trilinear gauge…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-01-15 Mikulas Gintner , Stephen Godfrey , Gilles Couture

We present a framework for the efficient computation of optimal Bayesian decisions under intractable likelihoods, by learning a surrogate model for the expected utility (or its distribution) as a function of the action and data spaces. We…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-11-13 Justin Alsing , Thomas D. P. Edwards , Benjamin Wandelt

We introduce a method to study quantum entanglement at a future $e^+e^-$ Higgs factory (here the Future Circular Collider colliding $e^+$ and $e^-$ (FCC-ee) operating at $\sqrt{s}=240\,\mathrm{GeV}$) in the $\tau\tau$ final state. This…

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