Pileup Mitigation with Machine Learning (PUMML)

Pileup involves the contamination of the energy distribution arising from the primary collision of interest (leading vertex) by radiation from soft collisions (pileup). We develop a new technique for removing this contamination using machine learning and convolutional neural networks. The network ta...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Nachman, Benjamin, Schwartz, Matthew D., Komiske, Patrick T., Metodiev, Eric Mario
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/113351
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Summary:Pileup involves the contamination of the energy distribution arising from the primary collision of interest (leading vertex) by radiation from soft collisions (pileup). We develop a new technique for removing this contamination using machine learning and convolutional neural networks. The network takes as input the energy distribution of charged leading vertex particles, charged pileup particles, and all neutral particles and outputs the energy distribution of particles coming from leading vertex alone. The PUMML algorithm performs remarkably well at eliminating pileup distortion on a wide range of simple and complex jet observables. We test the robustness of the algorithm in a number of ways and discuss how the network can be trained directly on data. Keywords: Jets.