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.

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Use in Publications

Updating list of citations and use cases of pyhf:

  • ATLAS Collaboration. Implementation of simplified likelihoods in HistFactory for searches for supersymmetry. Geneva, Sep 2021. https://cds.cern.ch/record/2782654.
  • Michael J. Baker, Darius A. Faroughy, and Sokratis Trifinopoulos. Collider Signatures of Coannihilating Dark Matter in Light of the B-Physics Anomalies. Sep 2021. arXiv:2109.08689.
  • Kyle Cranmer and others. Publishing statistical models: Getting the most out of particle physics experiments. Sep 2021. arXiv:2109.04981.
  • Kyle Cranmer and Alexander Held. Building and steering binned template fits with cabinetry. EPJ Web Conf., 251:03067, 2021. doi:10.1051/epjconf/202125103067.
  • Jean-Loup Tastet, Oleg Ruchayskiy, and Inar Timiryasov. Reinterpreting the ATLAS bounds on heavy neutral leptons in a realistic neutrino oscillation model. July 2021. arXiv:2107.12980.
  • ATLAS Collaboration. Search for chargino–neutralino pair production in final states with three leptons and missing transverse momentum in s√=13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector. June 2021. arXiv:2106.01676.
  • Belle II Collaboration. Search for B⁺→ K⁺νν̅ decays using an inclusive tagging method at Belle II. Contribution to the 2021 EW session of the 55th Rencontres de Moriond. May 2021. arXiv:2105.05754.
  • Belle II Collaboration. Search for B⁺→ K⁺νν̅ decays using an inclusive tagging method at Belle II. Apr 2021. arXiv:2104.12624.
  • Andrei Angelescu, Damir Bečirević, Darius A. Faroughy, Florentin Jaffredo, and Olcyr Sumensari. On the single leptoquark solutions to the B-physics anomalies. Mar 2021. arXiv:2103.12504.
  • Matthew Feickert, Lukas Heinrich, Giordon Stark, and Ben Galewsky. Distributed statistical inference with pyhf enabled through funcX. EPJ Web Conf., 251:02070, 2021. arXiv:2103.02182, doi:10.1051/epjconf/202125102070.
  • Rodolfo Capdevilla, Federico Meloni, Rosa Simoniello, and Jose Zurita. Hunting wino and higgsino dark matter at the muon collider with disappearing tracks. Feb 2021. arXiv:2102.11292.
  • Vincenzo Cirigliano, Kaori Fuyuto, Christopher Lee, Emanuele Mereghetti, and Bin Yan. Charged Lepton Flavor Violation at the EIC. Feb 2021. arXiv:2102.06176.
  • Jack Y. Araz and others. Proceedings of the second MadAnalysis 5 workshop on LHC recasting in Korea. Mod. Phys. Lett. A, 36(01):2102001, 2021. arXiv:2101.02245, doi:10.1142/S0217732321020016.
  • Simone Amoroso, Deepak Kar, and Matthias Schott. How to discover QCD Instantons at the LHC. Eur. Phys. J. C, 81(7):624, Dec 2020. arXiv:2012.09120, doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-021-09412-1.
  • Wolfgang Waltenberger, André Lessa, and Sabine Kraml. Artificial Proto-Modelling: Building Precursors of a Next Standard Model from Simplified Model Results. Dec 2020. arXiv:2012.12246, doi: 10.1007/JHEP03(2021)207.
  • Gaël Alguero, Jan Heisig, Charanjit K. Khosa, Sabine Kraml, Suchita Kulkarni, Andre Lessa, Philipp Neuhuber, Humberto Reyes-González, Wolfgang Waltenberger, and Alicia Wongel. New developments in SModelS. In Tools for High Energy Physics and Cosmology. Dec 2020. arXiv:2012.08192.
  • 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.
  • ATLAS Collaboration. Search for new phenomena in events with two opposite-charge leptons, jets and missing transverse momentum in pp collisions at s√=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector. Geneva, Aug 2020. https://cds.cern.ch/record/2684863.
  • 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. 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 Probability Models

Updating list of HEPData entries for publications using HistFactory JSON statistical models:

  • Search for charginos and neutralinos in final states with two boosted hadronically decaying bosons and missing transverse momentum in pp collisions at s√=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector. 2021. doi:10.17182/hepdata.104458
  • Search for R-parity violating supersymmetry in a final state containing leptons and many jets with the ATLAS experiment using s√=13 TeV proton-proton collision data. 2021. doi:10.17182/hepdata.104860
  • Search for chargino–neutralino pair production in final states with three leptons and missing transverse momentum in s√=13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector. 2021. doi:10.17182/hepdata.95751
  • Search for squarks and gluinos in final states with one isolated lepton, jets, and missing transverse momentum at s√=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector. 2021. doi:10.17182/hepdata.97041
  • Search for trilepton resonances from chargino and neutralino pair production in s√=13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector. 2020. doi:10.17182/hepdata.99806.
  • Search for displaced leptons in s√=13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector. 2020. doi:10.17182/hepdata.98796.
  • Search for squarks and gluinos in final states with jets and missing transverse momentum using 139 fb−1 of s√=13 TeV pp collision data with the ATLAS detector. 2020. doi:10.17182/hepdata.95664.
  • Search for long-lived, massive particles in events with a displaced vertex and a muon with large impact parameter in pp collisions at s√=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector. 2020. doi:10.17182/hepdata.91760
  • 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.
  • Searches for electroweak production of supersymmetric particles with compressed mass spectra in s√=13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector. 2019. doi:10.17182/hepdata.91374
  • 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 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. 2019. doi:10.17182/hepdata.90607.
  • 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. 2019. doi:10.17182/hepdata.91214.
  • 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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