Miucci, Antonio; Merlassino, Claudia; Haug, Sigve; Weber, Michael; Anders, John Kenneth; Beck, Hans Peter; Ereditato, Antonio; Meloni, Federico; Mullier, Geoffrey André Adrien; Rimoldi, Marco; Weston, Thomas Daniel (2019). A strategy for a general search for new phenomena using data-derived signal regions and its application within the ATLAS experiment. The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields, 79(2) Springer 10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-6540-y
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This paper describes a strategy for a general search used by the ATLAS Collaboration to find potential indications of new physics. Events are classified according to their final state into many event classes. For each event class an automated search algorithm tests whether the data are compatible with the Monte Carlo simulated expectation in several distributions sensitive to the effects of new physics. The significance of a deviation is quantified using pseudo-experiments. A data selection with a significant deviation defines a signal region for a dedicated follow-up analysis with an improved background expectation. The analysis of the data-derived signal regions on a new dataset allows a statistical interpretation without the large look-elsewhere effect. The sensitivity of the approach is discussed using Standard Model processes and benchmark signals of new physics. As an example, results are shown for 3.2 fb−1 of proton–proton collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV collected with the ATLAS detector at the LHC in 2015, in which more than 700 event classes and more than 105 regions have been analysed. No significant deviations are found and consequently no data-derived signal regions for a follow-up analysis have been defined.
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Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
10 Strategic Research Centers > Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics (AEC) 08 Faculty of Science > Physics Institute > Laboratory for High Energy Physics (LHEP) |
UniBE Contributor: |
Miucci, Antonio, Merlassino, Claudia, Haug, Sigve, Weber, Michele, Anders, John Kenneth, Beck, Hans Peter, Ereditato, Antonio, Meloni, Federico, Mullier, Geoffrey André Adrien, Rimoldi, Marco, Weston, Thomas Daniel |
Subjects: |
500 Science > 530 Physics |
ISSN: |
1434-6044 |
Publisher: |
Springer |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
BORIS Import LHEP |
Date Deposited: |
11 Jun 2020 15:55 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 15:38 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-6540-y |
Additional Information: |
Kollaboration - Es sind nur die Berner Autoren namentlich erwaehnt; ATLAS collaboration |
BORIS DOI: |
10.7892/boris.143646 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/143646 |
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