Deep learning in color: towards automated quark/gluon jet discrimination
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Schwartz, Matthew D.
Komiske, Patrick T.
Metodiev, Eric Mario
Date Issued
January 2017
Journal
Journal of High Energy Physics
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Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Komiske, Patrick T., Eric M. Metodiev, and Matthew D. Schwartz. “Deep Learning in Color: Towards Automated Quark/gluon Jet Discrimination.” Journal of High Energy Physics 2017.1 (2017): n. pag.
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Abstract
Artificial intelligence offers the potential to automate challenging data-processing tasks in collider physics. To establish its prospects, we explore to what extent deep learning with convolutional neural networks can discriminate quark and gluon jets better than observables designed by physicists. Our approach builds upon the paradigm that a jet can be treated as an image, with intensity given by the local calorimeter deposits. We supplement this construction by adding color to the images, with red, green and blue intensities given by the transverse momentum in charged particles, transverse momentum in neutral particles, and pixel-level charged particle counts. Overall, the deep networks match or outperform traditional jet variables. We also find that, while various simulations produce different quark and gluon jets, the neural networks are surprisingly insensitive to these differences, similar to traditional observables. This suggests that the networks can extract robust physical information from imperfect simulations.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Theoretical Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP01(2017)110
