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20192026
most citedExploring the Space of Jets with CMS Open Data

65 citations · 236 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

physics.acc-ph2026

AI Acceleration of Muon Collider R&D: A Report from the AI4MuC Workshop

J. Scott Berg, David Bizzozero, Tulika Bose +27

A Muon Collider is one of the most attractive routes to multi-TeV lepton collisions, but it requires the accelerator and detector communities to solve a tightly coupled set of prob…

physics.ins-det2026

Fast BIB simulation at a future Muon Collider with generative machine learning

Radha Mastandrea, Shiyu Peng, Benjamin Rosser +1

Beam-induced background (BIB) from muon decay products will be an overwhelming and unavoidable background at a future Muon Collider. In order to develop robust event reconstruction…

hep-ph2026

Kitchen Sink Anomaly Detection

Ranit Das, Marie Hein, Gregor Kasieczka +6

An enormous amount of R&D effort has resulted in many new resonant anomaly detection methods being proposed in recent years. However, the vast majority of previous R&D studies have…

hep-ph2025

Resummed Distribution Functions: Making Perturbation Theory Positive and Normalized

Rikab Gambhir, Radha Mastandrea

Fixed-order perturbative calculations for differential cross sections can suffer from non-physical artifacts: they can be non-positive, non-normalizable, and non-finite, none of wh…

hep-ph2025

Generator Based Inference (GBI)

Chi Lung Cheng, Ranit Das, Runze Li +5

Statistical inference in physics is often based on samples from a generator (sometimes referred to as a ``forward model") that emulate experimental data and depend on parameters of…

hep-ph2025★ 5 cited

Isolating Unisolated Upsilons with Anomaly Detection in CMS Open Data

Rikab Gambhir, Radha Mastandrea, Benjamin Nachman +1

We present the first study of anti-isolated Upsilon decays to two muons () in proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider. Using a machine learning (ML)-bas…

hep-ph2024★ 9 cited

Constraining the Higgs Potential with Neural Simulation-based Inference for Di-Higgs Production

Radha Mastandrea, Benjamin Nachman, Tilman Plehn

Determining the form of the Higgs potential is one of the most exciting challenges of modern particle physics. Higgs pair production directly probes the Higgs self-coupling and sho…

hep-ph2023★ 7 cited

Non-resonant Anomaly Detection with Background Extrapolation

Kehang Bai, Radha Mastandrea, Benjamin Nachman

Complete anomaly detection strategies that are both signal sensitive and compatible with background estimation have largely focused on resonant signals. Non-resonant new physics sc…

hep-ph2023★ 9 cited

Flows for Flows: Morphing one Dataset into another with Maximum Likelihood Estimation

Tobias Golling, Samuel Klein, Radha Mastandrea +2

Many components of data analysis in high energy physics and beyond require morphing one dataset into another. This is commonly solved via reweighting, but there are many advantages…

hep-ph2023★ 29 cited

The Interplay of Machine Learning--based Resonant Anomaly Detection Methods

Tobias Golling, Gregor Kasieczka, Claudius Krause +6

Machine learning--based anomaly detection (AD) methods are promising tools for extending the coverage of searches for physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM). One class of AD metho…

hep-ph2022★ 4 cited

Efficiently Moving Instead of Reweighting Collider Events with Machine Learning

Radha Mastandrea, Benjamin Nachman

There are many cases in collider physics and elsewhere where a calibration dataset is used to predict the known physics and / or noise of a target region of phase space. This calib…

hep-ph2022★ 46 cited

FETA: Flow-Enhanced Transportation for Anomaly Detection

Tobias Golling, Samuel Klein, Radha Mastandrea +1

Resonant anomaly detection is a promising framework for model-independent searches for new particles. Weakly supervised resonant anomaly detection methods compare data with a poten…

hep-ph2022★ 25 cited

Anomaly Detection under Coordinate Transformations

Gregor Kasieczka, Radha Mastandrea, Vinicius Mikuni +3

There is a growing need for machine learning-based anomaly detection strategies to broaden the search for Beyond-the-Standard-Model (BSM) physics at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)…

hep-ph2022★ 35 cited

Self-supervised Anomaly Detection for New Physics

Barry M. Dillon, Radha Mastandrea, Benjamin Nachman

We investigate a method of model-agnostic anomaly detection through studying jets, collimated sprays of particles produced in high-energy collisions. We train a transformer neural…

hep-ph2022★ 2 cited

Hunting for vampires and other unlikely forms of parity violation at the Large Hadron Collider

Christopher G. Lester, Radha Mastandrea, Daniel Noel +1

Non-Standard-Model parity violation may be occurring in LHC collisions. Any such violation would go unseen, however, as searches are for it are not currently performed. One barrier…

astro-ph.GA2022

Tracing Milky Way substructure with an RR Lyrae hierarchical clustering forest

Brian T. Cook, Deborah F. Woods, Jessica D. Ruprecht +6

RR Lyrae variable stars have long been reliable standard candles used to discern structure in the Local Group. With this in mind, we present a routine to identify groupings contain…

hep-ph2019★ 65 cited

Exploring the Space of Jets with CMS Open Data

Patrick T. Komiske, Radha Mastandrea, Eric M. Metodiev +2

We explore the metric space of jets using public collider data from the CMS experiment. Starting from 2.3/fb of 7 TeV proton-proton collisions collected at the Large Hadron Collide…