The ATLAS Collaboration released collision data to the general public. The currently available amount of data is up to 10/fb, about 10-times more than available for the Higgs boson observation in 2012. The challenge is: can you find the Higgs boson in this data?
This project tackles the challenge in Higgs decays to photons, using dataset [1] and machine learning techniques.
[1] ATLAS Collaboration (2020). ATLAS 13 TeV samples collection Gamma-Gamma, for 2020 Open Data release. CERN Open Data Portal.
The code and information is organised as follows:
- NtupleProcessing: converts Open Data files from CERN ROOT format to .csv format, which can be used as input to machine learning algorithms (or viewed in a text editor).
- Code: 1st version of solving the challenge. A worked-out jupyter notebook, reading in .csv and performing Higgs search using a BDT.
- BDTScript: 2nd version of solving the challenge, WIP.
