Machine Learning Techniques in the CMS Search for Higgs Decays to Dimuons

With the accumulation of large collision datasets at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, the LHC experiments can search for rare processes, where the extraction of signal events from the copious Standard Model backgrounds poses an enormous challenge. Multivariate techniques promise to achieve the bes...

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Main Authors: Bourilkov Dimitri, Acosta Darin, Bortignon Pierluigi, Brinkerhoff Andrew, Carnes Andrew, Gleyzer Sergei, Regnery Brendan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: EDP Sciences 2019-01-01
Series:EPJ Web of Conferences
Online Access:https://www.epj-conferences.org/articles/epjconf/pdf/2019/19/epjconf_chep2018_06002.pdf