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Encoding off-shell effects in top pair production in Direct Diffusion networks

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2026-02-04 v3

Abstract

To meet the precision targets of upcoming LHC runs in the simulation of top pair production events it is essential to also consider off-shell effects. Due to their great computational cost I propose to encode them in neural networks. For that I use a combination of neural networks that take events with approximate off-shell effects and transform them into events that match those obtained with full off-shell calculations. This was shown to work reliably and efficiently at leading order. Here I discuss first steps extending this method to include higher order effects.

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@article{arxiv.2412.17783,
  title  = {Encoding off-shell effects in top pair production in Direct Diffusion networks},
  author = {Mathias Kuschick},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.17783},
  year   = {2026}
}

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Talk at the 17th International Workshop on Top Quark Physics (Top2024), 22-27 September 2024

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