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Automatic detection of boosted Higgs boson and top quark jets in an event image

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2023-12-06 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We build a deep neural network based on the Mask R-CNN framework to detect the Higgs jets and top quark jets in any event image. We propose an algorithm to assign the top quark final states at the ground truth level so that the network can be trained in a supervised manner. A new jet branch is added to the network, which uses constituent information to predict the four-momenta of the original parton, thus intrinsically implementing the pileup mitigation. The network can predict both the shapes and the momenta of target jets. We show that the network surpasses the LorentzNet in top and Higgs tagging and the PELICAN network in momentum regression for certain cases, in terms of reconstruction efficiency and accuracy. We also show that the performance of the network does not degrade much when applied to events of a process different from the trained one and to events with overlapping jets.

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@article{arxiv.2302.13460,
  title  = {Automatic detection of boosted Higgs boson and top quark jets in an event image},
  author = {Sang Kwan Choi and Jinmian Li and Cong Zhang and Rao Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.13460},
  year   = {2023}
}

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20 pages, 12 figures, version accepted for publication in PRD