Search for dissertations about: "Nathan Simpson"

Found 1 swedish dissertation containing the words Nathan Simpson.

  2. 1. Data Analysis in High-Energy Physics as a Differentiable Program

    Author : Nathan Simpson; Partikel- och kärnfysik; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; differentiable programming; machine learning; particle physics;

    Abstract : Machine learning methods are now ubiquitous in physics, but often target objectives that are one or two steps removed from our physics goals. A prominent example of this is the discrimination between signal and background processes, which doesn’t account for the presence of systematic uncertainties – something crucial for the calculation of quantities such as the discovery significance and upper limits. READ MORE