Bergen ATLAS AD strategy planning

Wednesday 26 Mar 2025, 10:15 → 12:00 Europe/Zurich

E507 (HVL)

Guidelines for ATLAS anomaly detection analyses: https://cds.cern.ch/record/2923884  

Other useful reading:

• Thea et al. "Machine learning for anomaly detection in particle physics." Reviews in Physics (2024)
• ATLAS Collaboration. "Search for new phenomena in two-body invariant mass distributions using unsupervised machine learning for anomaly detection at s√=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector." PRL (2024)
• Batson et al. "Topological obstructions to autoencoding." JHEP (2021)
• Fraser et al. "Challenges for unsupervised anomaly detection in particle physics." JHEP (2022)

10:15 → 10:25 ATLAS guidelines overview

Guidelines CDS

Slides

10:25 → 10:55 Status on preliminary work

Speakers: Igor Slazyk (University of Bergen (NO)), Tarje Solberg Hillersoy (University of Bergen (NO))

Anomaly_detection_Bergen_II.pdf

10:55 → 12:00 Analysis strategy discussion

Speakers: Prof. Anna Lipniacka (University of Bergen (NO)), Bertrand Martin Dit Latour (University of Bergen (NO)), Dag Larsen (University of Bergen (NO)), Igor Slazyk (University of Bergen (NO)), Dr Steffen Maeland (Western Norway University of Applied Sciences), Tarje Solberg Hillersoy (University of Bergen (NO)), Therese Sjursen (Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (No)), Dr Trygve Buanes (Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (NO))