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Topological reconstruction of particle physics processes using graph neural networks

Published inPhysical review. D, vol. 107, no. 11, 116019
Publication date2023
First online date2023-06-23
Abstract

We present a new approach, the Topograph, which reconstructs underlying physics processes, including the intermediary particles, by leveraging underlying priors from the nature of particle physics decays and the flexibility of message passing graph neural networks. The Topograph not only solves the combinatoric assignment of observed final state objects, associating them to their original mother particles, but directly predicts the properties of intermediate particles in hard scatter processes and their subsequent decays. In comparison to standard combinatoric approaches or modern approaches using graph neural networks, which scale exponentially or quadratically, the complexity of Topographs scales linearly with the number of reconstructed objects. We apply Topographs to top quark pair production in the all hadronic decay channel, where we outperform the standard approach and match the performance of the state-of-the-art machine learning technique.

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Keywords
  • Top: pair production
  • Neural network
  • Performance
  • Hadronic decay
  • Topological
  • Machine learning
Citation (ISO format)
EHRKE, Lukas et al. Topological reconstruction of particle physics processes using graph neural networks. In: Physical review. D, 2023, vol. 107, n° 11, p. 116019. doi: 10.1103/physrevd.107.116019
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