Speaker
Max Fuste Costa
(ATLAS (ATLAS-Experiment))
Description
Searches for physics beyond the Standard Model at the Large Hadron collider usually rely on phenomena that affect leptons, photons or jets with high transverse momenta (> 15 GeV).
Alongside these hard physics objects, proton-proton collisions produce a multitude of soft ones, which are known as the underlying event. This work focuses on the search of anomalies among the soft physics objects, a phase space not studied before, which would hint at the existence of particular new phenomena. A feasibility study is currently performed on Monte Carlo simulations, using CATHODE, a model agnostic search strategy that uses outer density estimations to detect anomalies. First results and encountered challenges will be presented.
Primary authors
David Curtin
(University of Toronto)
David Rousso
(ATLAS (ATLAS-Experiment))
David Shih
(Rutgers University)
Gregor Kasieczka
(Universität Hamburg)
Max Fuste Costa
(ATLAS (ATLAS-Experiment))
Sarah Heim
(ATLAS (ATLAS Dark Matter with Higgs))
Sascha Dreyer
(ATLAS (ATLAS Beyond Standard Model))
