HIGGS

Donated on 2/11/2014

This is a classification problem to distinguish between a signal process which produces Higgs bosons and a background process which does not.

Dataset Characteristics

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Subject Area

Physics and Chemistry

Associated Tasks

Classification

Feature Type

Real

# Instances

11000000

# Features

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Dataset Information

Additional Information

The data has been produced using Monte Carlo simulations. The first 21 features (columns 2-22) are kinematic properties measured by the particle detectors in the accelerator. The last seven features are functions of the first 21 features; these are high-level features derived by physicists to help discriminate between the two classes. There is an interest in using deep learning methods to obviate the need for physicists to manually develop such features. Benchmark results using Bayesian Decision Trees from a standard physics package and 5-layer neural networks are presented in the original paper. The last 500,000 examples are used as a test set.

Has Missing Values?

No

Introductory Paper

Searching for exotic particles in high-energy physics with deep learning

By P. Baldi, Peter Sadowski, D. Whiteson. 2014

Published in Nature Communications

Variables Table

Variable NameRoleTypeDemographicDescriptionUnitsMissing Values
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0 to 10 of 28

Additional Variable Information

The first column is the class label (1 for signal, 0 for background), followed by the 28 features (21 low-level features then 7 high-level features): lepton pT, lepton eta, lepton phi, missing energy magnitude, missing energy phi, jet 1 pt, jet 1 eta, jet 1 phi, jet 1 b-tag, jet 2 pt, jet 2 eta, jet 2 phi, jet 2 b-tag, jet 3 pt, jet 3 eta, jet 3 phi, jet 3 b-tag, jet 4 pt, jet 4 eta, jet 4 phi, jet 4 b-tag, m_jj, m_jjj, m_lv, m_jlv, m_bb, m_wbb, m_wwbb. For more detailed information about each feature see the original paper.

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Daniel Whiteson

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