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Record Nr.

UNINA9910678250403321

Autore

Andrews Michael <1835-1917, >

Titolo

Search for exotic Higgs boson decays to merged diphotons : a novel CMS analysis using end-to-end deep learning / / Michael Andrews

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Germany : , : Springer, , [2023]

©2023

ISBN

9783031250910

9783031250903

Edizione

[1st ed. 2023.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 pages)

Collana

Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research, , 2190-5061

Disciplina

006.31

Soggetti

Deep learning (Machine learning)

Higgs bosons

Particles (Nuclear physics) - Diffraction

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- The LHC and the CMS detector -- Theory & phenomenology -- Analysis strategy -- Data sets -- Signal selection -- a mass regression -- Analysis -- Results -- Conclusions -- Supplementary studies.

Sommario/riassunto

This book describes the first application at CMS of deep learning algorithms trained directly on low-level, “raw” detector data, or so-called end-to-end physics reconstruction. Growing interest in searches for exotic new physics in the CMS collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN has highlighted the need for a new generation of particle reconstruction algorithms. For many exotic physics searches, sensitivity is constrained not by the ability to extract information from particle-level data but by inefficiencies in the reconstruction of the particle-level quantities themselves. The technique achieves a breakthrough in the reconstruction of highly merged photon pairs that are completely unresolved in the CMS detector. This newfound ability is used to perform the first direct search for exotic Higgs boson decays to a pair of hypothetical light scalar particles H→aa, each subsequently decaying to a pair of highly merged photons a→yy, an analysis once



thought impossible to perform. The book concludes with an outlook on potential new exotic searches made accessible by this new reconstruction paradigm.