On scientific understanding with artificial intelligence

M Krenn, R Pollice, SY Guo, M Aldeghi… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
An oracle that correctly predicts the outcome of every particle physics experiment, the
products of every possible chemical reaction or the function of every protein would …

Machine learning in the search for new fundamental physics

G Karagiorgi, G Kasieczka, S Kravitz… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Compelling experimental evidence suggests the existence of new physics beyond the well-
established and tested standard model of particle physics. Various current and upcoming …

The LHC Olympics 2020 a community challenge for anomaly detection in high energy physics

G Kasieczka, B Nachman, D Shih… - Reports on progress …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
A new paradigm for data-driven, model-agnostic new physics searches at colliders is
emerging, and aims to leverage recent breakthroughs in anomaly detection and machine …

Classifying anomalies through outer density estimation

A Hallin, J Isaacson, G Kasieczka, C Krause… - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
We propose a new model-agnostic search strategy for physics beyond the standard model
(BSM) at the LHC, based on a novel application of neural density estimation to anomaly …

The dark machines anomaly score challenge: benchmark data and model independent event classification for the large hadron collider

T Aarrestad, M van Beekveld, M Bona, A Boveia… - SciPost Physics, 2022 - scipost.org
We describe the outcome of a data challenge conducted as part of the Dark Machines
Initiative and the Les Houches 2019 workshop on Physics at TeV colliders. The challenged …

Anomaly detection in high-energy physics using a quantum autoencoder

VS Ngairangbam, M Spannowsky, M Takeuchi - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
The lack of evidence for new interactions and particles at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
has motivated the high-energy physics community to explore model-agnostic data-analysis …

Masked particle modeling on sets: towards self-supervised high energy physics foundation models

T Golling, L Heinrich, M Kagan, S Klein… - Machine Learning …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We propose masked particle modeling (MPM) as a self-supervised method for learning
generic, transferable, and reusable representations on unordered sets of inputs for use in …

[HTML][HTML] Anomaly detection search for new resonances decaying into a Higgs boson and a generic new particle X in hadronic final states using s= 13 TeV pp collisions …

G Aad, B Abbott, DC Abbott, K Abeling, SH Abidi… - Physical Review …, 2023 - repo.scoap3.org
A search is presented for a heavy resonance Y decaying into a Standard Model Higgs
boson H and a new particle X in a fully hadronic final state. The full Large Hadron Collider …

Resonant anomaly detection without background sculpting

A Hallin, G Kasieczka, T Quadfasel, D Shih… - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
We introduce a new technique named latent CATHODE (LaCATHODE) for performing
“enhanced bump hunts,” a type of resonant anomaly search that combines conventional one …

Getting high: High fidelity simulation of high granularity calorimeters with high speed

E Buhmann, S Diefenbacher, E Eren, F Gaede… - Computing and Software …, 2021 - Springer
Accurate simulation of physical processes is crucial for the success of modern particle
physics. However, simulating the development and interaction of particle showers with …