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Machine Learning in HEP

• Talks, notes and lectures

Caltech CMS Tier2

• T2 homepage

Publications

• Study of Beam-Beam Effects at PEP-II
• Goodness of Fit: What Do We Really Want To Know?
• Estimation of Goodness-of-Fit in Multidimensional Analysis Using Distance to Nearest Neighbor
• The BaBar Event Building and Level-3 Trigger Farm Upgrade
• Expected coverage of Bayesian confidence intervals for the mean of a Poisson statistic
• Estimation of upper limits using a Poisson statistic
• Update of the search for tau -> mu gamma
• Resonant structure of decays tau -> 3 pi pi0 nu and tau -> omega pi nu
• Search for tau -> e gamma and tau -> mu gamma
• Channeling of 70 GeV protons in bent silicon crystals

Thesis

• Rare leptonic decays of the D meson and Tau lepton

Statistics Talks and Notes (other than those on machine learning)

• History and modern developments in Goodness of Fit tests Caltech, 2003
• Review of methods for setting confidence limits Wilson Lab, 2000
• Likelihood Ratio Test and Signal Significance Test 2005

Books on statistics for HEP experimentalists

• ...for those of you who realized that Eadie is not enough anyway

LXe calorimeter R&D

• Snapshot of temperature and pressure readings in the dewar
• History of temperature and pressure readings
• ADC readout
• LXe logbook
• LXe plots and transparencies
• Labview programs for Jorway 73A CAMAC controller