Seminar Details
2017-11-21 (14:00) : Search for new rare physics processes: towards a "deeper" understanding of LHC data?
At Euler building (room A.002)
Organized by Mathematical Engineering
Speaker :
Christophe Delaere (UCL)
Abstract :
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) allows us to probe sub-protonic scales where new elementary particles and / or new fundamental interactions could appear. The recent observation of the Higgs particle in 2012 was only made possible through the use of advanced multivariate analysis techniques. While more data is being collected, the collaboration are developing new approaches to data analysis, both for the low-level "event reconstruction" and for the high-level signal extraction, using deep learning when appropriate. In this seminar, we will try to better define what "observation" means and illustrate with examples the data analysis techniques explored to observe possible new physics phenomena at the LHC in the next decade.