Machine learning approach for the search of resonances with topological features at the Large Hadron Collider

Author:

Dahbi Salah-Eddine1ORCID,Choma Joshua1,Mokgatitswane Gaogalalwe1,Ruan Xifeng1,Lieberman Benjamin1,Mellado Bruce12,Celik Turgay3

Affiliation:

1. School of Physics and Institute for Collider Particle Physics, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Wits 2050, South Africa

2. iThemba LABS, National Research Foundation, P.O. Box 722, Somerset West 7129, South Africa

3. School of Electrical and Information Engineering and Wits, Institute of Data Science Physics, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Wits 2050, South Africa

Abstract

The observation of resonances is unequivocal evidence of new physics beyond the Standard Model at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). So far, inclusive and model-dependent searches have not provided evidence of new resonances, indicating these could be driven by subtle topologies. Here, we use machine learning techniques based on weak supervision to perform searches. Weak supervision based on mixed samples can be used to search for resonances with little or no prior knowledge of the production mechanism. Also, it offers the advantage that sidebands or control regions can be used to effectively model backgrounds with minimal reliance on simulations. However, weak supervision alone is found to be highly inefficient in identifying corners of the multi-dimensional space of interest. Instead, we propose an approach to search for new resonances that involves a classification procedure that is signature and topology based. A combination of weak supervision with Deep Neural Network algorithms is applied following this classification. The performance of this strategy is evaluated on the production of SM Higgs boson decaying to a pair of photons inclusively and in exclusive regions of phase space tailored for specific production modes at the LHC. After verifying the ability of the methodology to extract different SM Higgs boson signal mechanisms, a search for new phenomena in high-mass final states is set up for the LHC.

Publisher

World Scientific Pub Co Pte Ltd

Subject

Astronomy and Astrophysics,Nuclear and High Energy Physics,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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