9–12 Sept 2024
Imperial College London
Europe/London timezone

Generative Unfolding

11 Sept 2024, 14:00
25m
Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory (Imperial College London)

Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory

Imperial College London

Speaker

Tilman Plehn (Heidelberg University)

Description

Looking for a way modern machine learning transforms LHC physics, unfolding has for a long time been one of our goal, and only modern networks allow us to do this meaningfully. It does not only make analyses with a wide range of theory hypotheses more efficient, it also allows the LHC collaborations to publish their data. I will show how generative networks can be used for this purpose, directly learning conditional probabilities in complete analogy to a forward simulations. I will then illustrate the power of this method using a challenging CMS case study.

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