21 March 2022 to 30 September 2022
Europe/Zurich timezone

Simulation of Monte-Carlo events at the LHC using a Generative model based on Kernel Density Estimation

23 Mar 2022, 14:30
15m

Speaker

Mrs Nidhi Tripathi (School of Physics, Institute for Collider Particle Physics, University of the Witwatersrand)

Description

We develop a machine learning-based generative model, using scikit-learn to generate a list of particle four-momenta from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) proton-proton collisions. This method estimates the kernel density of the data using the Gaussian kernel and then generates additional samples from this distribution. As an example of application, we demonstrate the ability of this approach to reproduce a set of kinematic features, that are used for the search of new resonances decaying to Z(ll)γ final states at the LHC. This generative model is constructed to take the pre-processed Zγ events and generate sample data with accurate statistics, mimicking the original distributions and achieving better performances with respect to the standard event Monte-Carlo generators.

Primary author

Mrs Nidhi Tripathi (School of Physics, Institute for Collider Particle Physics, University of the Witwatersrand)

Co-authors

Prof. Bruce Mellado (School of Physics, Institute for Collider Particle Physics, University of the Witwatersrand) Dr Xifeng Ruan (School of Physics, Institute for Collider Particle Physics, University of the Witwatersrand)

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