Authors
Morad Aaboud, Georges Aad, Brad Abbott, B Abeloos, SH Abidi, OS AbouZeid, NL Abraham, H Abramowicz, H Abreu, Y Abulaiti, BS Acharya, S Adachi, L Adamczyk, J Adelman, M Adersberger, T Adye, AA Affolder, Y Afik, C Agheorghiesei, JA Aguilar-Saavedra, F Ahmadov, G Aielli, S Akatsuka, TPA Åkesson, E Akilli, AV Akimov, GL Alberghi, J Albert, P Albicocco, MJ Alconada Verzini, S Alderweireldt, M Aleksa, IN Aleksandrov, C Alexa, G Alexander, T Alexopoulos, M Alhroob, B Ali, G Alimonti, J Alison, SP Alkire, C Allaire, BMM Allbrooke, BW Allen, PP Allport, A Aloisio, A Alonso, F Alonso, C Alpigiani, AA Alshehri, MI Alstaty, B Alvarez Gonzalez, D Álvarez Piqueras, MG Alviggi, BT Amadio, Y Amaral Coutinho, L Ambroz, C Amelung, D Amidei, SP Amor Dos Santos, S Amoroso, C Anastopoulos, LS Ancu, N Andari, T Andeen, CF Anders, JK Anders, KJ Anderson, A Andreazza, V Andrei, S Angelidakis, I Angelozzi, A Angerami, AV Anisenkov, A Annovi, C Antel, MT Anthony, M Antonelli, DJA Antrim, F Anulli, M Aoki, L Aperio Bella, G Arabidze, Y Arai, JP Araque, V Araujo Ferraz, R Araujo Pereira, ATH Arce, RE Ardell, FA Arduh, J-F Arguin, S Argyropoulos, AJ Armbruster, LJ Armitage, O Arnaez, H Arnold, M Arratia, O Arslan, A Artamonov, G Artoni, S Artz, S Asai, N Asbah, A Ashkenazi, EM Asimakopoulou, L Asquith, K Assamagan, R Astalos, RJ Atkin, M Atkinson, NB Atlay, K Augsten, G Avolio, R Avramidou, B Axen, MK Ayoub, G Azuelos, AE Baas, MJ Baca, H Bachacou, K Bachas, M Backes, P Bagnaia, M Bahmani, H Bahrasemani, JT Baines, M Bajic, OK Baker, PJ Bakker, D Bakshi Gupta, EM Baldin, P Balek, F Balli, WK Balunas, E Banas, A Bandyopadhyay, S Banerjee, AAE Bannoura, L Barak, WM Barbe, EL Barberio, D Barberis, M Barbero, T Barillari, M-S Barisits, J Barkeloo, T Barklow, N Barlow, R Barnea, SL Barnes
Publication date
2019/2
Journal
The European Physical Journal C
Volume
79
Issue
2
Pages
1-45
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Description
This paper describes a strategy for a general search used by the ATLAS Collaboration to find potential indications of new physics. Events are classified according to their final state into many event classes. For each event class an automated search algorithm tests whether the data are compatible with the Monte Carlo simulated expectation in several distributions sensitive to the effects of new physics. The significance of a deviation is quantified using pseudo-experiments. A data selection with a significant deviation defines a signal region for a dedicated follow-up analysis with an improved background expectation. The analysis of the data-derived signal regions on a new dataset allows a statistical interpretation without the large look-elsewhere effect. The sensitivity of the approach is discussed using Standard Model processes and benchmark signals of new physics. As an example, results are shown for 3.2 fb of proton …
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