27–29 Feb 2024
FIAS
Europe/Berlin timezone

Machine-learning off-shell effects in top quark production

29 Feb 2024, 10:15
45m
FIAS

FIAS

Speaker

Mathias Kuschick (Universität Münster)

Description

Off-shell effects in large LHC backgrounds are crucial for precision predictions and, at the same time, challenging to simulate. We show how a generative diffusion network learns off-shell kinematics given the much simpler on-shell process. The idea behind this sampling from on-shell events is that the generative network does not have to reproduce the on-shell features and can focus on the additional and relatively smooth off-shell extension. It generates off-shell configurations fast and precisely, while reproducing even challenging on-shell features.

Authors

Anja Butter (ITP Heidelberg) Mathias Kuschick (Universität Münster) Michael Klasen (WWU Münster) Sofia Palacios Schweitzer (Universität Heidelberg) Tilman Plehn (Heidelberg University) Tomáš Ježo (Universität Münster)

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