Jun 25 – 28, 2024
ETH Zurich
Europe/Zurich timezone

Machine Learning-Assisted Unfolding for Neutrino Cross Section Measurements

Jun 27, 2024, 4:30 PM
15m
HCI J4 (ETH Zurich)

HCI J4

ETH Zurich

ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg campus, Stefano-​​Franscini-​Platz 5, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland.

Speaker

Roger Huang (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

Description

The choice of unfolding method for a cross-section measurement is tightly coupled to the model dependence of the efficiency correction and the overall impact of cross-section modeling uncertainties in the analysis. A key issue is the dimensionality used, as the kinematics of all outgoing particles in an event typically affects the reconstruction performance in a neutrino detector. OmniFold is an unfolding method that iteratively reweights a simulated dataset using machine learning to utilize arbitrarily high-dimensional information that has previously been applied to collider and cosmology datasets. Here, we demonstrate its use for neutrino physics using a public T2K near detector simulated dataset along with a series of mock data sets, and show its performance is comparable to or better than traditional approaches while maintaining greater flexibility.

Type of contribution Talk: 15 minutes.

Primary authors

Andrew Cudd (University of Colorado Boulder) Ben Nachman (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Callum Wilkinson (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Masaki Kawaue (Kyoto University) Roger Huang (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Tatsuya Kikawa (Kyoto University)

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