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20202024
most citedBump Hunting in Latent Space

67 citations · 120 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

astro-ph.HE2024

Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays versus Models of High Energy Hadronic Interactions

Blaž Bortolato, Jernej F. Kamenik, Michele Tammaro

We evaluate the consistency of hadronic interaction models in the CORSIKA simulation package with publicly available fluorescence telescope data from the Pierre Auger Observatory.…

astro-ph.HE2024

Resolution of (Heavy) Primaries in Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays

Blaž Bortolato, Jernej F. Kamenik, Michele Tammaro

Measurements of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECR) suggest a complex composition with significant contributions from heavy nuclei at the highest energies. We systematically expl…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 6 cited

Learning the Composition of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays

Blaz Bortolato, Jernej F. Kamenik, Michele Tammaro

We apply statistical inference on the Pierre Auger Open Data to discern for the first time the full mass composition of cosmic rays at different energies. Working with longitudinal…

hep-ph2021★ 67 cited

Bump Hunting in Latent Space

Blaž Bortolato, Barry M. Dillon, Jernej F. Kamenik +1

Unsupervised anomaly detection could be crucial in future analyses searching for rare phenomena in large datasets, as for example collected at the LHC. To this end, we introduce a…

hep-ph2021★ 42 cited

The LHC Olympics 2020: A Community Challenge for Anomaly Detection in High Energy Physics

Gregor Kasieczka, Benjamin Nachman, David Shih +44

A new paradigm for data-driven, model-agnostic new physics searches at colliders is emerging, and aims to leverage recent breakthroughs in anomaly detection and machine learning. I…

hep-ph2020★ 5 cited

Light Majorana Neutrinos in (Semi)invisible Meson Decays

Blaz Bortolato, Jernej F. Kamenik

We reconsider decays of pseudoscalar mesons (P) to neutrino pairs and possibly additional photons in presence of (light) Majorana neutrinos. For this purpose we derive a model-inde…