23–28 Oct 2022
Villa Romanazzi Carducci, Bari, Italy
Europe/Rome timezone

Improved Selective Background Monte Carlo Simulation at Belle II with Graph Attention Networks and Weighted Events

24 Oct 2022, 11:00
30m
Area Poster (Floor -1) (Villa Romanazzi)

Area Poster (Floor -1)

Villa Romanazzi

Poster Track 2: Data Analysis - Algorithms and Tools Poster session with coffee break

Speaker

Boyang Yu

Description

When measuring rare processes at Belle II, a huge luminosity is required, which means a large number of simulations are necessary to determine signal efficiencies and background contributions. However, this process demands high computation costs while most of the simulated data, in particular in case of background, are discarded by the event selection. Thus filters using graph neural networks are introduced at an early stage to save the resources for the detector simulation and reconstruction of events discarded at analysis level. In our work, we improved the performance of the filters using graph attention and invested statistical methods including sampling and reweighting to deal with biases introduced by the filtering.

References

DPG Talk 2022:
https://www.dpg-verhandlungen.de/year/2022/conference/heidelberg/part/t/session/53/contribution/1
DPG Talk 2021:
https://www.dpg-verhandlungen.de/year/2021/conference/dortmund/part/t/session/38/contribution/10

Significance

Improved the accuracy of distinguishing between background and expected events while reduced bias. Provided a tool to speedup the generation + skimming process.

Experiment context, if any Belle II

Primary author

Co-authors

Nikolai Hartmann (Ludwig Maximilians Universitat (DE)) Mr Luca Schinnerl (LMU Munich) Thomas Kuhr (Ludwig Maximilians Universitat (DE))

Presentation materials