pyhf is a pure-python implementation of the widely-used HistFactory p.d.f. template described in [CERN-OPEN-2012-016]. It also includes interval estimation is based on the asymptotic formulas of “Asymptotic formulae for likelihood-based tests of new physics” [arxiv:1007.1727]. The aim is also to support modern computational graph libraries such as PyTorch and TensorFlow in order to make use of features such as autodifferentiation and GPU acceleration.

GitHub Project DOI Scikit-HEP NSF-1836650

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The CERN homepage featured an article on pyhf: New open release allows theorists to explore LHC data in a new way: The ATLAS collaboration releases full analysis likelihoods, a first for an LHC experiment.

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SciPy 2020 talk YouTube

PyHEP 2020 tutorial YouTube

Use in Publications

Updating list of citations and use cases of pyhf:

  • Matthew Feickert, Lukas Heinrich, and Giordon Stark. Likelihood preservation and statistical reproduction of searches for new physics. EPJ Web Conf., Nov 2020. doi:10.1051/epjconf/202024506017.
  • Gaël Alguero, Sabine Kraml, and Wolfgang Waltenberger. A SModelS interface for pyhf likelihoods. Sep 2020. arXiv:2009.01809.
  • Jeffrey Krupa and others. GPU coprocessors as a service for deep learning inference in high energy physics. July 2020. arXiv:2007.10359.
  • Charanjit K. Khosa, Sabine Kraml, Andre Lessa, Philipp Neuhuber, and Wolfgang Waltenberger. SModelS database update v1.2.3. LHEP, 158:2020, May 2020. arXiv:2005.00555, doi:10.31526/lhep.2020.158.
  • Waleed Abdallah and others. Reinterpretation of LHC Results for New Physics: Status and Recommendations after Run 2. 2020. arXiv:2003.07868.
  • G. Brooijmans and others. Les Houches 2019 Physics at TeV Colliders: New Physics Working Group Report. In 2020. arXiv:2002.12220.
  • Andrei Angelescu, Darius A. Faroughy, and Olcyr Sumensari. Lepton Flavor Violation and Dilepton Tails at the LHC. Eur. Phys. J. C, 80(7):641, 2020. arXiv:2002.05684, doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-020-8210-5.
  • B.C. Allanach, Tyler Corbett, and Maeve Madigan. Sensitivity of Future Hadron Colliders to Leptoquark Pair Production in the Di-Muon Di-Jets Channel. Eur. Phys. J. C, 80(2):170, 2020. arXiv:1911.04455, doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-020-7722-3.
  • J. Alison and others. Higgs boson potential at colliders: status and perspectives. In 2019. arXiv:1910.00012.
  • ATLAS Collaboration. Reproducing searches for new physics with the ATLAS experiment through publication of full statistical likelihoods. Geneva, Aug 2019. URL: https://cds.cern.ch/record/2684863.
  • Johann Brehmer, Felix Kling, Irina Espejo, and Kyle Cranmer. MadMiner: Machine learning-based inference for particle physics. Comput. Softw. Big Sci., 4(1):3, 2020. arXiv:1907.10621, doi:10.1007/s41781-020-0035-2.
  • Lukas Heinrich, Holger Schulz, Jessica Turner, and Ye-Ling Zhou. Constraining A₄ Leptonic Flavour Model Parameters at Colliders and Beyond. 2018. arXiv:1810.05648.

Published Likelihoods

Updating list of HEPData entries for publications using HistFactory JSON likelihoods:

  • Search for squarks and gluinos in final states with same-sign leptons and jets using 139 fb−1 of data collected with the ATLAS detector. 2020. doi:10.17182/hepdata.91214.
  • Search for direct production of electroweakinos in final states with one lepton, missing transverse momentum and a Higgs boson decaying into two b-jets in (pp) collisions at s√=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector. 2020. doi:10.17182/hepdata.90607.
  • Search for chargino-neutralino production with mass splittings near the electroweak scale in three-lepton final states in s√ = 13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector. 2019. doi:10.17182/hepdata.91127.
  • Search for direct stau production in events with two hadronic τ-leptons in s√=13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector. 2019. doi:10.17182/hepdata.92006.
  • Search for bottom-squark pair production with the ATLAS detector in final states containing Higgs bosons, b-jets and missing transverse momentum. 2019. doi:10.17182/hepdata.89408.

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