Collaborative Research Center TRR 257

B3b: Anomaly searches in jet physics

Principal Investigator
Prof. Michael Krämer RWTH Aachen University
Prof. Tilman Plehn Heidelberg University

Subject

In this project we will investigate a wide range of deep-learning paradigms and algorithms for anomaly searches at the LHC. Semi-supervised, weakly-supervised, or unsupervised training can be used to achieve sensitivity to weak or complex New Physics signals (anomalies) in a largely model-independent way. These concepts will be developed for QCD jets, i.e., for analysis objects that are present in huge quantities at the LHC and whose dynamics is well understood within the Standard Model. We will systematically explore various machine learning architectures, such as autoencoders, normalising flows and transformer networks, trained using different jet-data formats, ranging from images to point clouds and higher-level observables such as energy flow polynomials.

Topics

  • Density-based and latent-space anomaly searches
  • Anomaly scores with error bars
  • Supervised and weakly supervised anomaly detection
  • Benchmarking with physics problems
  • Applications beyond LHC
P3H-20-025
Title: Casting a graph net to catch dark showers
Type: Paper
Authors: Elias Bernreuther, Thorben Finke, Felix Kahlhoefer, Michael Krämer and Alexander Mück
arXiv: 2006.08639
Info:Published in: SciPost Phys. 10 (2021) 046
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