Deep Learning for Higgs Boson Identification and Searches for New

Deep Learning for Higgs Boson Identification and Searches for New Physics at the Large Hadron Collider Mark Neubauer The quest to understand the fundamental building blocks of nature and their interactions is one of the oldest and most ambitious of human scientific endeavors. As the world s most powerful particle collider, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) represents a huge step forward in this quest. The 2012 discovery of the Higgs boson demonstrates the great scientific value of the LHC and the Higgs p