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Re:LHC physicists embrace brute-force approach to particle hunt by ddavis on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @01:46PM (#17760152)
We have models which provide predictions about the signatures we would see in the detector if that model is true.

The "general search" doesn't target a particular model. The only model used is our Standard Model, treated as background. Traditional searches utilize one or more of many Beyond Standard Model (BSM) models to treat as potential signal.

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Re:LHC physicists embrace brute-force approach to particle hunt by soqpupit on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @02:17PM (#17760449)
This seems like a great place for the top machine learning folks.
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Re:LHC physicists embrace brute-force approach to particle hunt by ddavis on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @02:25PM (#17760538)
Yep, the field is rapidly adopting ML all over the place. The last paragraph in the article mentions a very hot topic right now.
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Re:LHC physicists embrace brute-force approach to particle hunt by soqpupit on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @03:12PM (#17760954)
It seems like an interesting problem. It has clearly defined requirements for success, lots of data with (one assumes) some hidden structure, and the structure is not yet known.
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