Towards a method to anticipate dark matter signals with deep learning at the LHC
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UAM. Departamento de Física TeóricaPublisher
SciPostDate
2022-02-01Citation
10.21468/SCIPOSTPHYS.12.2.063
SciPost Physics 12.2 (2022): 063
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2542-4653 (online)DOI
10.21468/SCIPOSTPHYS.12.2.063Funded by
The work of EA is partially supported by the “Atracción de Talento” program (Modalidad 1) of the Comunidad de Madrid (Spain) under the grant number 2019-T1/TIC-14019 and by the Spanish Research Agency (Agencia Estatal de Investigación) through the grant IFT Centro de Excelencia Severo Ochoa SEV-2016-0597. This work has been also partially supported by CONICET and ANPCyT under projects PICT 2016-0164, PICT 2017-0802, PICT 2017-2751, PICT 2017- 2765, and PICT 2018-03682Project
Gobierno de España. SEV-2016-0597Editor's Version
https://doi.org/10.21468/SCIPOSTPHYS.12.2.063Subjects
Dark Matter; Higgs; Scalar; FísicaRights
© E. Arganda et al.Abstract
We study several simplified dark matter (DM) models and their signatures at the LHC using neural networks. We focus on the usual monojet plus missing transverse energy channel, but to train the algorithms we organize the data in 2D histograms instead of event-by-event arrays. This results in a large performance boost to distinguish between standard model (SM) only and SM plus new physics signals. We use the kinematic monojet features as input data which allow us to describe families of models with a single data sample. We found that the neural network performance does not depend on the simulated number of background events if they are presented as a function of S/pB, for reasonably large B, where S and B are the number of signal and background events per histogram, respectively. This provides flexibility to the method, since testing a particular model in that case only requires knowing the new physics monojet cross section. Furthermore, we also discuss the network performance under incorrect assumptions about the true DM nature. Finally, we propose multimodel classifiers to search and identify new signals in a more general way, for the next LHC run
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Google Scholar:Arganda Carreras, Ernesto
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Medina, Aníbal D.
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Pérez, Andrés D.
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Szynkman, Alejandro
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