16–21 Sep 2024
Argonne National Laboratory
US/Central timezone

Machine Learning-Assisted Unfolding for Neutrino Cross-section Measurements

20 Sep 2024, 14:09
24m
Auditorium (#402)

Auditorium

#402

Talk: in-person WG2: Neutrino Scattering Physics Parallel: WG2

Speaker

Andrew Cudd (University of Colorado Boulder)

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, and show its performance is comparable to or better than traditional approaches using a series of mock data sets.

Working Group WG 2: Neutrino Scattering Physics

Primary authors

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

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