15th International Workshop on Boosted Object Phenomenology, Reconstruction, Measurements, and Searches at Colliders

Search for new phenomena in two-body invariant mass distributions using unsupervised machine learning for anomaly detection with the ATLAS detector

1 Aug 2023, 14:40

20m

Auditorium (50)

Searches

Speaker

Wasikul Islam

Description

Searches for new resonances in two-body invariant mass distributions are performed using an unsupervised anomaly detection technique in events produced in pp collisions at a center of mass energy of 13 TeV recorded by the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Studies are conducted in data containing at least one isolated lepton. An autoencoder network is trained with 1% randomly selected collision events and anomalous regions are then defined which contain events with high reconstruction losses from the decoder. Nine invariant mass distributions are inspected which contain pairs of one light jet (or one $b$-jet) and one lepton ($e$, $\mu$), photon, or a second light jet ($b$-jet). The 95% confidence level upper limits on contributions from generic Gaussian signals are reported for the studied invariant mass distributions. The obtained model-independent limits show strong potential to exclude generic heavy states with complex decays.

Presentation materials

Wasikul_Islam_Anomaly_Detection_BOOST_talk_2023.pdf