6–10 Nov 2023
DESY
Europe/Zurich timezone

Improved selective background Monte Carlo simulation at Belle II with graph attention networks and weighted events

6 Nov 2023, 12:15
15m
Seminarraum 4a/b (DESY)

Seminarraum 4a/b

DESY

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 investigated statistical methods including sampling and reweighting to deal with the biases introduced by the filtering.

Authors

Boyang Yu Dr Nikolai Hartmann (LMU Munich) Luca Schinnerl Thomas Kuhr (Ludwig Maximilians Universitat (DE))

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