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We interpret the new particle at the Large Hadron Collider as a CP-even scalar and investigate its electroweak quantum number. Assuming an unbroken custodial invariance as suggested by precision electroweak measurements, only four…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-21 Ian Low , Joseph Lykken , Gabe Shaughnessy

Inference from interaction maps, such as centromere identification from genome-wide chromosome conformation capture techniques -- notably Hi-C -- can be formulated as a generic inverse problem: infer a set of parameters given a map…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Eloïse Touron , Pedro L. C. Rodrigues , Julyan Arbel , Nelle Varoquaux , Michael Arbel

High $p_T$ Higgs production at hadron colliders provides a direct probe of the internal structure of the $gg \to H$ loop with the $H \to b\bar{b}$ decay offering the most statistics due to the large branching ratio. Despite the overwhelming…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-05 Joshua Lin , Marat Freytsis , Ian Moult , Benjamin Nachman

We present a method for identifying $H\rightarrow WW^* \rightarrow \ell \nu j j$ in the presence of large Standard Model backgrounds and illustrate how this decay mode may be applied to the study of Bell-type Inequalities. Our findings…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-18 Federica Fabbri , James Howarth , Theo Maurin

Source code representation with deep learning techniques is an important research field. There have been many studies that learn sequential or structural information for code representation. But sequence-based models and non-sequence-models…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Kechi Zhang , Zhuo Li , Zhi Jin , Ge Li

Analyses of collider data, often assisted by modern Machine Learning methods, condense a number of observables into a few powerful discriminants for the separation of the targeted signal process from the contributing backgrounds. These…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-26 Philipp Windischhofer , Miha Zgubic , Daniela Bortoletto

Conventional searches for new phenomena at collider experiments tend to focus on prompt particles, produced at the interaction point and decaying rapidly. New physics models including long-lived particles that travel a substantial distance…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-11-07 Mikael Mårtensson , Max Isacson , Hampus Hahne , Rebeca Gonzalez Suarez , Richard Brenner

We show that W H and Z H production where the Higgs boson decays to bbbar can be recovered as good search channels for the Standard Model Higgs at the Large Hadron Collider. This is done by requiring the Higgs to have high transverse…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-10-03 Jonathan M. Butterworth , Adam R. Davison , Mathieu Rubin , Gavin P. Salam

Heavy resonances are an integral part of many extensions of the Standard Model. The discovery of such heavy resonances are a primary goal at the LHC and future hadron colliders. When a particle with TeV-scale mass decays into…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-30 Michael Spannowsky , Martin Stoll

We introduce Deep-HiTS, a rotation invariant convolutional neural network (CNN) model for classifying images of transients candidates into artifacts or real sources for the High cadence Transient Survey (HiTS). CNNs have the advantage of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-22 Guillermo Cabrera-Vives , Ignacio Reyes , Francisco Förster , Pablo A. Estévez , Juan-Carlos Maureira

This paper examines frameworks and phenomenology of ultrarelativistic Higgs vacuum bubble collisions in a first-order phase transition associated with the Standard Model Higgs field in the early Universe. Such collisions act as a cosmic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-17 Bibhushan Shakya

While the particle physics community is eagerly waiting for a positive sign for the construction of the next energy frontier collider, developments continue to advance the detector capabilities. New methods and algorithms are being…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-12-15 Ulrich Einhaus , Bohdan Dudar , Jenny List , Yasser Radkhorrami , Julie Torndal

This paper follows hep-ph/9611397, where updated calculations of cross sections and branching ratios relevant for Standard Model Higgs phenomenology at the LHC were presented. Here, we complete that study by carrying out an updated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Moretti

Collider experiments are equipped with trigger systems that rapidly inspect the physics content emerging from collisions to decide whether the resulting products are worth saving for later analysis. One crucial aspect for analyzing the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-04-14 Andrea Coccaro , Carlo Schiavi , Alessandro Zaio

In preparation for Higgs factories and energy-frontier facilities, future colliders are moving toward high-granularity calorimeters to improve reconstruction quality. However, the cost and construction complexity of such detectors is…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-06-04 Nilotpal Kakati , Etienne Dreyer , Eilam Gross

Heavy-flavor hadron production, in particular bottom hadron production, is difficult to study in deep-inelastic scattering (DIS) experiments due to small production rates and branching fractions. To overcome these limitations, a method for…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-02-20 Thomas Boettcher

We investigate single Higgs production in $\sqrt{s}=125$ GeV $\gamma\gamma$ collisions at the X-Ray Free Electron (XFEL) Compton Collider (XCC) concept and present an analysis targeting the major hadronic, semi-leptonic, and fully leptonic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-19 Umar Sohail Qureshi , Tim Barklow , Ariel Schwartzman

We present a machine learning-based anomaly detection strategy designed to identify anomalous physics in events containing resonant Standard Model physics and demonstrate this method on the final state of a Higgs boson decaying to two…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-08-20 Chi Lung Cheng , Sarah Demers , Sascha Diefenbacher , Runze Li , Benjamin Nachman , Dennis Noll

We initiate the study of exotic Higgs decays to long-lived particles (LLPs) at proposed future lepton colliders, focusing on scenarios with displaced hadronic final states. Our analysis entails a realistic tracker-based search strategy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-22 Samuel Alipour-Fard , Nathaniel Craig , Minyuan Jiang , Seth Koren

The prospect of future electron-positron colliders operating as "Higgs factories" in a clean experimental environment presents one of the most promising avenues for Higgs precision measurements. In order to capitalise on this, we need to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-10 Elliot Fox