Local Diagnostics of Learned Event Representations for Anomaly Detection at the HL-LHC
arXiv:2610.13437v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Anomaly detection, the identification of collision events that deviate from Standard Model expectations, is one of the most promising model-agnostic strategies for new-physics searches at the Large Hadron Collider. Searching for rare events in learned low-dimensional representations removes the need to commit to hand-crafted observables a priori, but sacrifices the immediate physical interpretation those observables provide. For anomaly detection…