Data Science for �Particle Physics

June 14-25 2021

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Chair: Shih-Chieh Hsu (University of Washington Seattle)

Indico: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1046620/

Zoom: https://cern.zoom.us/j/64045124215?pwd=R1J1eVBQcUowRzlxZ0VZdnBXS3VCUT09

Discord: https://discord.gg/4Cn7cFNU

Schedule

• UW EPE Data Science Summer Workshop (June 14~25): �4pm~6pm (PDT) EPE Data Science Workshop Summer 2021 (14-25 June 2021) · Indico
• Seminar talks are delivered via Zoom [link]
• Hands-on activities will be mostly on Discord [link]

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EPE Data Science Workshop Summer 2021 (14-25 June 2021) · Indico

Basic Level

Computing tutorial

• Discord #python-tutorial
• Goal: get familiar with standard data science tools.
• Contents:
• Shell
• Jupyter notebook
• Git
• Python
• Anaconda
• uwepe-analysis/EPEtutorials

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Haoran Zhao

Ke Li

Instructors

Advance Level

Machine Learning tutorial

• Discord #machine learning
• Goal: understanding machine learning operation
• Day 1 [slide][notebook]
• Day 2 [slide][notebook]

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Ajay Rawat

MadGraph/MadAnalysis tutorial

• Discord #madgraph-tutorial
• Goal: learning Monte Carlo simulation and data analysis.
• MadGraph5 Tutorial-SVJ v.2 , MadGraph5/Madanalysis5 Instructions-Dark Higgs

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Oscar Ou

Instructors

Elham Khoda

Using Discord for discussions

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• Work on these self-guided tutorials
• Team up with other students
• Ask questions and address other students’ questions
• Join the daily seminar sessions

EPE Research Projects

• You are welcomed to join one of the active research projects
• See REU Symposium https://indico.cern.ch/event/1035829/
• ATLAS
• Dark Higgs (mono-S), Semi-visible jet, Vector Boson Scattering, Tri-Higgs
• FASER
• Muon tracking, Electron shower, Neutrino- anti-neutrino cross section
• Machine Learning
• Photon-jet identification, Graph Neural Network tracking, Machine Learning Vertexing, Anomaly Detection, Missing mass regression

PI - Shih-Chieh Hsu

Postdoc - Ke Li

Postdoc - Elham E Khoda

PHY/CS 499 credits

UW EPE Scholars Summer 2021

NSF UW REU 2021

• Photon-jet identification: Deployment of CNN for identification of multi-photon objects decayed from (pseudo)scalar through exotic Higgs decay
• Vector Boson Scattering Wgamma: Estimate sensitivity of new physics with the Standard Model Effective Field Theory using electroweak Wgamma jj final state.

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IRIS-HEP Fellows

• ROB and REANA: Developing the ROB backend to support workflows to run on REANA and other cloud platforms

US ATLAS SUPER

• Semi-Visible Jet Search in ATLAS: Search for semi-visible jet in s-channel production with the ATLAS pp collision data

Ajay Rawat

Oscar Ou

Morgan Cassidy

Kaylin Ingalls

Winning Scholarships

• IRIS-HEP Fellowship Program�https://iris-hep.org/fellows.html �
• Mary Gates Research Scholarship�https://expd.uw.edu/mge/apply/research/ �
• Research Experiences for Undergraduates

https://sites.google.com/uw.edu/uwreu/home�

• US ATLAS SUPER�https://usatlas.github.io/super/ �
• CERN REU �https://sites.google.com/a/umich.edu/um-cern-reu/

Activity Subscriptions

Add one page to the activity group that you would like to work on during the data science workshop.

Tutorial

EPE Computing Tutorials

Complete EPE Computing Tutorials

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Alex Liechty (He/Him)

Third Year

Physics and ACMS

University of Washington Seattle

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EPE Computing Tutorials

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Alexandre Ramirez

Sophomore

Physics/Mathematics

University of Washington

Complete EPE tutorials

EPE Computing Tutorials

Complete EPE tutorials and Machine Learning Tutorials

Ali Salman

Third Year

Applied Physics

University of Washington

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EPE Computing Tutorial

Finish the computing tutorial, then the ML tutorial, and hopefully join a project afterwards

Anthony Lau

Fourth year

Applied Physics

University of Washington, Seattle

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EPE Computing Tutorials

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Apurva Goel

BS in Comp Phys & Astr (2021)

University of Washington Seattle

Complete EPE & Machine Learning tutorials. Would love to pick up a research project at the end.

EPE Computing Tutorials

Complete EPE tutorial and Machine Learning tutorial.

Haikun Xue

Third Year

Physics and Astronomy

University of Washington, Seattle

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EPE Computing Tutorials

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Haoran Sun

Sophomore

Physics/ACMS

University of Washington Seattle

Complete EPE tutorials

EPE Computing Tutorial

Complete EPE Tutorials

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Kaylin Ingalls

Fourth Year

Physics

University of Portland

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EPE Computing Tutorials

I would like to complete the Computing and Machine Learning tutorials, and join a project if I can.

Kevin J. Wang

Junior -> Senior

Physics (Applied)

University of Washington

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Computing and Machine Learning Tutorial

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Complete the EPE Computing and Machine Learning Tutorial. Would like to pick up a project at the end.

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Max Wang

Third Year

Applied Physics

University of Washington, Seattle

EPE Computing Tutorials

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Meghna Shankar (she/her)

Third Year

Physics & Computer Science

University of Washington - Seattle

Complete EPE tutorials and machine learning tutorials

EPE Computing Tutorials

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Morgan Cassidy

Third Year

Physics and Mathematics

University of Kansas

Complete EPE tutorials

EPE Computing Tutorial

Complete EPE Tutorials

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Randall Scarborough

Fourth Year

Applied Physics

University of Washington, Seattle

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EPE Computing Tutorials

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Riley Maloney (he/him)

Second Year

Physics & Computer Science

University of Washington - Seattle

Complete EPE tutorials

EPE Computing Tutorials

Complete MadGraph and ML tutorials.

Sean Huentelman

Fourth Year

Physics and Astronomy

University of Washington

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EPE Computing and machine learning Tutorial

Complete EPE Computing and machine learning Tutorial

Tingjun Cai

Second Year

Math

University of Washington, Seattle

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Machine Learning Tutorial

Complete the MadGraph & Machine Learning Tutorial. Would like to pick up a project at the end.

Van Tha Bik Lian

Junior

Physics

University of Washington - Seattle

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EPE Tutorials

Complete the tutorials, pick up a project afterwards if possible.

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Zach Marucheck

Fourth Year

Applied Physics

University of Washington, Seattle

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ATLAS

Dark Higgs

I will be working on the analysis of T-Channel DM models. I hope to complete extract my CL results and create my contour plots this week.

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Colton Peterson

Senior

Physics/Astronomy

University of Washington Seattle

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ATLAS SVJ in s-channel

Use MadAnalysis parameter scan result to create distribution plots and CL plots for SVJ s-channel.

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Oscar Ou

Junior->Senior

Physics/ACMS

University of Washington Seattle

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SVJ ATLAS

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Currently using Madgraph for generating background and signal events,showering using Pythia8 and passing the events through the Delphes-3.4.2 detector simulator.

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Upcoming goal :RECAST and SVJ-s channel analysis.

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Prerna Chauhan

Third Year

Engineering Physics

IIT, Delhi

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FASER

FASER

1. Electron shower reconstruction with the FASERnu pilot run data.
2. Mu neutrino/antineutrino cross-section sensitivity with FASER+FASERnu+IFT.

John Spencer

PhD student

Physics

University of Washington Seattle

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Machine Learning

ML for Vertexing

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1. Use ACTS to generate samples
2. Train SPVCNN on the ACTS samples

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Haoran Zhao

PhD student 2nd year

Physics

University of Washington Seattle

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Vertexing

Learn to edit the source code for ACTS

Preparing data for machine learning

Learn the machine learning process for Vertexing

David Lai

Junior

Physics

University of Washington, Seattle

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�Integrating REANA with ROB

IRIS-HEP fellowship project

Developing the ROB backend to support workflows to run on REANA and other cloud platforms

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Ajay R. Rawat

Sophomore-> Junior

Computer Engineering

University of Washington, Seattle

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