15–17 Oct 2018
CERN
Europe/Zurich timezone

Constraining Effective Field Theories with Machine Learning

17 Oct 2018, 09:00
20m
503/1-001 - Council Chamber (CERN)

503/1-001 - Council Chamber

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Johann Brehmer Kyle Cranmer Gilles Louppe Juan Pavez

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We present powerful new analysis techniques to constrain effective field theories at the LHC. By leveraging the structure of particle physics processes, we extract extra information from Monte-Carlo simulations, which can be used to train neural network models that estimate the likelihood ratio. These methods scale well to processes with many observables and theory parameters, do not require any approximations of the parton shower or detector response, and can be evaluated in microseconds. We show that they allow us to put significantly stronger bounds on dimension-six operators than existing methods, demonstrating their potential to improve the precision of the LHC legacy constraints.

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