Machine learning in the search for new fundamental physics

@article{Karagiorgi2021MachineLI,
  title={Machine learning in the search for new fundamental physics},
  author={Georgia Karagiorgi and Gregor Kasieczka and S. Kravitz and Benjamin Philip Nachman and David Shih},
  journal={Nature Reviews Physics},
  year={2021}
}
Georgia Karagiorgi,1, ∗ Gregor Kasieczka,2, † Scott Kravitz,3, ‡ Benjamin Nachman,3, 4, § and David Shih5, ¶ 1Department of Physics, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA 2Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universität Hamburg, 22761 Hamburg, Germany 3Physics Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA 4Berkeley Institute for Data Science, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA 5NHETC, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University… 
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