Unsupervised clustering for collider physics
V. M. Mikuni, F. Canelli
Abstract
We propose a new method for unsupervised clustering for collider physics named UCluster, where information in the embedding space created by a neural network is used to categorize collision events into different clusters that share similar properties. We show how this method can be developed into an unsupervised multiclass classification of different processes and applied in the anomaly detection of events to search for new physics phenomena at colliders.
Topics & Concepts
Cluster analysisAnomaly detectionEmbeddingUnsupervised learningArtificial neural networkPhysicsColliderSpace (punctuation)Artificial intelligenceComputer scienceParticle physicsMachine learningOperating systemParticle physics theoretical and experimental studiesComputational Physics and Python ApplicationsParticle Detector Development and Performance