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Gomez Ambrosio, R.; ter Hoeve, J.; Madigan, M.; Rojo, J.; Sanz, V. |
Title  |
Unbinned multivariate observables for global SMEFT analyses from machine learning |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2023 |
Publication |
Journal of High Energy Physics |
Abbreviated Journal |
J. High Energy Phys. |
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03 |
Issue |
3 |
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033 - 66pp |
| Keywords |
SMEFT; Higgs Properties |
| Abstract |
Theoretical interpretations of particle physics data, such as the determination of the Wilson coefficients of the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT), often involve the inference of multiple parameters from a global dataset. Optimizing such interpretations requires the identification of observables that exhibit the highest possible sensitivity to the underlying theory parameters. In this work we develop a flexible open source frame-work, ML4EFT, enabling the integration of unbinned multivariate observables into global SMEFT fits. As compared to traditional measurements, such observables enhance the sensitivity to the theory parameters by preventing the information loss incurred when binning in a subset of final-state kinematic variables. Our strategy combines machine learning regression and classification techniques to parameterize high-dimensional likelihood ratios, using the Monte Carlo replica method to estimate and propagate methodological uncertainties. As a proof of concept we construct unbinned multivariate observables for top-quark pair and Higgs+Z production at the LHC, demonstrate their impact on the SMEFT parameter space as compared to binned measurements, and study the improved constraints associated to multivariate inputs. Since the number of neural networks to be trained scales quadratically with the number of parameters and can be fully parallelized, the ML4EFT framework is well-suited to construct unbinned multivariate observables which depend on up to tens of EFT coefficients, as required in global fits. |
| Address |
[Ambrosio, Raquel Gomez] Univ Milano Bicocca, Dipartimento Fis G Occhialini, Piazza Sci 3, I-20126 Milan, Italy, Email: raquel.gomezambrosio@unito.it; |
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Springer |
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English |
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1029-8479 |
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WOS:000946004000003 |
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yes |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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5501 |
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Khosa, C.K.; Sanz, V.; Soughton, M. |
| Title |
Using machine learning to disentangle LHC signatures of Dark Matter candidates |
Type |
Journal Article |
| Year |
2021 |
Publication |
Scipost Physics |
Abbreviated Journal |
SciPost Phys. |
| Volume |
10 |
Issue |
6 |
Pages |
151 - 26pp |
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We study the prospects of characterising Dark Matter at colliders using Machine Learning (ML) techniques. We focus on the monojet and missing transverse energy (MET) channel and propose a set of benchmark models for the study: a typical WIMP Dark Matter candidate in the form of a SUSY neutralino, a pseudo-Goldstone impostor in the shape of an Axion-Like Particle, and a light Dark Matter impostor whose interactions are mediated by a heavy particle. All these benchmarks are tensioned against each other, and against the main SM background (Z+jets). Our analysis uses both the leading-order kinematic features as well as the information of an additional hard jet. We explore different representations of the data, from a simple event data sample with values of kinematic variables fed into a Logistic Regression algorithm or a Fully Connected Neural Network, to a transformation of the data into images related to probability distributions, fed to Deep and Convolutional Neural Networks. We also study the robustness of our method against including detector effects, dropping kinematic variables, or changing the number of events per image. In the case of signals with more combinatorial possibilities (events with more than one hard jet), the most crucial data features are selected by performing a Principal Component Analysis. We compare the performance of all these methods, and find that using the 2D images of the combined information of multiple events significantly improves the discrimination performance. |
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[Khosa, Charanjit Kaur; Sanz, Veronica; Soughton, Michael] Univ Sussex, Dept Phys & Astron, Brighton BN1 9QH, E Sussex, England, Email: Charanjit.Kaur@sussex.ac.uk; |
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English |
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2542-4653 |
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WOS:000680038800002 |
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International Collaboration |
yes |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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4927 |
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