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Testing new physics models with global comparisons to collider measurements: the Contur toolkit

Buckley, A; Butterworth, JM; Corpe, L; Habedank, M; Huang, D; Yallup, D; Altakach, M; ... Zilgalvis, G; + view all (2021) Testing new physics models with global comparisons to collider measurements: the Contur toolkit. SciPost Physics Core , 4 (2) , Article 013. 10.21468/SciPostPhysCore.4.2.013. Green open access

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Abstract

Measurements at particle collider experiments, even if primarily aimed at understanding Standard Model processes, can have a high degree of model independence, and implicitly contain information about potential contributions from physics beyond the Standard Model. The Contur package allows users to benefit from the hundreds of measurements preserved in the Rivet library to test new models against the bank of LHC measurements to date. This method has proven to be very effective in several recent publications from the Contur team, but ultimately, for this approach to be successful, the authors believe that the Contur tool needs to be accessible to the wider high energy physics community. As such, this manual accompanies the first user-facing version: Contur v2. It describes the design choices that have been made, as well as detailing pitfalls and common issues to avoid. The authors hope that with the help of this documentation, external groups will be able to run their own Contur studies, for example when proposing a new model, or pitching a new search.

Type: Article
Title: Testing new physics models with global comparisons to collider measurements: the Contur toolkit
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.21468/SciPostPhysCore.4.2.013
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.21468/SciPostPhysCore.4.2.013
Language: English
Additional information: Copyright A. Buckley et al. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Published by the SciPost Foundation.
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Physics and Astronomy
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10133520
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