Searches for new physics in collision events using a statistical technique for anomaly detection

Abstract

This paper discusses a statistical anomaly-detection method for model-independent searches for new physics in collision events produced at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The method requires calculations of $Z$-scores for a large number of Lorenz-invariant variables to identify events that deviate from those expected for the Standard Model (SM).

Comments: 4 pages, 1 figure. Proceedings of 50th International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics (ISMD2021), 12-16 July 2021