19–21 Aug 2026
Niels Bohr Building
Europe/Copenhagen timezone

Model-agnostic searches for new physics with NPLM, and its reinterpretation

19 Aug 2026, 11:30
20m
Margrethe Bohr Salen (Niels Bohr Building)

Margrethe Bohr Salen

Niels Bohr Building

Jagtvej 155a, Copenhagen

Speaker

Jack Harrison (IFAE - Barcelona)

Description

With recent advances in NSBI techniques, specifically neural ratio estimation, Beyond the Standard Model searches can now exploit higher dimensional inputs in an unbinned way, boosting their sensitivity for both parameter estimation and new physics searches. The New Physics Learning Machine (NPLM) approach (D’Agnolo et al., 2305.10500) provides a framework to adapt these techniques into an optimally sensitive anomaly detection algorithm. In this talk, I will outline the NPLM approach, focusing on the practical implementation required for analysis, before demonstrating a novel two-sample-test procedure that provides model-dependent parameter estimation.

Author

Jack Harrison (IFAE - Barcelona)

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