Searching for... unknown new physics
"The most recent edition of CERN's EP division newsletter highlights a paper made available this month on ArXiv by our colleagues Miguel Romão, Nuno Castro and Rute Pedro"
In its most recent edition, the newsletter of CERN's EP division (Experimental Physics) includes the special feature "How to search for new physics without knowing about it?”, which highlights a paper made available this month on ArXiv by our colleagues Miguel Romão, Nuno Castro and Rute Pedro. In this article, entitled "Finding New Physics without learning about it: Anomaly Detection as a tool for Searches at Colliders”, a new strategy based on anomaly detection with machine learning techniques is proposed to search for new phenomena at colliders independently of the new event details. The results demonstrate the potential of semi-supervised anomaly detection techniques to extensively explore present and future hadron colliders' data.