English

Classification of flavor dependence of Chiral Magnetic Effect with Deep Neural Network using multiple correlators

Nuclear Theory 2025-07-28 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Experiment

Abstract

We study the flavor dependence of the Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) by analyzing two key charge-separation correlators used to characterize the charge separation effect: the conventional Δγ\Delta\gamma and the recently proposed Rψ2R_{\psi_2}. Using the AMPT (A Multiphase Transport) model with an initial-state centrality-dependent charge separation, we evaluate the sensitivity of these correlators to 2-flavor (u,du,d) and 3-flavor (u,d,su,d,s) quark scenarios. While both correlators exhibit modest flavor dependence in mid-central (30-50\%) collisions, their discriminative power varies significantly with centrality and transverse momentum (pTp_T), limiting their utility disentangling the flavor dependent scenarios. To overcome these limitations, we develop a neural network classifier trained on final-state hadronic observables (e.g., dNch/dηdN_{ch}/d\eta, pTp_T spectra). The model achieves >90%>90\% accuracy in flavor classification by leveraging multi-observable correlations, with pTp_T-differential features proving particularly discriminative. Crucially, by incorporating background contributions directly into the training data, our approach provides more reliable flavor estimates than correlator-only methods.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.2507.19135,
  title  = {Classification of flavor dependence of Chiral Magnetic Effect with Deep Neural Network using multiple correlators},
  author = {Somdeep Dey and Abhisek Saha and Soma Sanyal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.19135},
  year   = {2025}
}