Distinguishing W signals at hadron colliders using neural networks

Spencer Chang (Department of Physics and Institute for Fundamental Science University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403, USA) ; Ting-Kuo Chen (Department of Physics, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan) ; Cheng-Wei Chiang (Department of Physics, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan; Physics Division, National Center for Theoretical Sciences, Taipei, Taiwan 10617, Republic of China)

We investigate a neural-network-based hypothesis test to distinguish different W and charged scalar resonances through the +ET channel at hadron colliders. This is traditionally challenging due to a fourfold ambiguity at proton-proton colliders, such as the Large Hadron Collider. Of the neural network approaches we study, we find a multiclass classifier based on a fully connected neural network trained upon two-dimensional histograms made from kinematic variables of the final state to be the most powerful. Furthermore, by considering the one-jet processes, we demonstrate that one can generalize to multiple two-dimensional histograms to represent different variable pairs. Finally, as a comparison to traditional approaches, we compare our method with Bayesian hypothesis testing and discuss the pros and cons of each approach. The neural network scheme presented in this paper is a powerful tool that can help probe the properties of charged resonances.

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Published on:
24 February 2021
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APS
Published in:
Physical Review D , Volume 103 (2021)
Issue 3
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.103.036016
arXiv:
2007.14586
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Published by the American Physical Society
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