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[nu]-flows: Conditional neutrino regression

Published inSciPost physics, vol. 14, no. 6, p. 1-25; 159
Publication date2023
First online date2023-06-16
Abstract

We present ν-Flows, a novel method for restricting the likelihood space of neutrino kinematics in high-energy collider experiments using conditional normalising flows and deep invertible neural networks. This method allows the recovery of the full neutrino momentum which is usually left as a free parameter and permits one to sample neutrino values under a learned conditional likelihood given event observations. We demonstrate the success of ν-Flows in a case study by applying it to simulated semileptonic t¯t events and show that it can lead to more accurate momentum reconstruction, particularly of the longitudinal coordinate. We also show that this has direct benefits in a downstream task of jet association, leading to an improvement of up to a factor of 1.41 compared to conventional methods.

Keywords
  • Energy: high
  • Top: pair production
  • Neutrino: momentum
  • Longitudinal
  • Flow
  • Neural network
  • Kinematics
  • Numerical calculations
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LEIGH, Matthew et al. [nu]-flows: Conditional neutrino regression. In: SciPost physics, 2023, vol. 14, n° 6, p. 1–25. doi: 10.21468/scipostphys.14.6.159
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Additional URL for this publicationhttps://scipost.org/10.21468/SciPostPhys.14.6.159
Journal ISSN2542-4653
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