Mar 5 – 6, 2026
CERN
Europe/Zurich timezone

Advanced b-tagging with archived ALEPH data

Mar 5, 2026, 3:00 PM
20m
13/2-005 (CERN)

13/2-005

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Speaker

Luka Lambrecht (Brown University (US))

Description

Recently, the 1994 dataset from the ALEPH experiment was converted into EDM4HEP format. Using this archived and converted ALEPH data, we apply modern software intended for FCC studies to process the data and train and employ state-of-the art, deep-learning based jet-tagging techniques. We obtain significant improvements in heavy-flavour tagging performance with respect to the legacy algorithms, and observe good agreement between simulation and data as a function of the tagger output score. These results open promising prospects on enhancing the precision of various legacy electroweak measurements by re-analyzing LEP data with improved analysis methods. Furthermore, these studies form a useful testbed for the development of software for future electron-positron colliders with real data.

Summary

We train and evaluate advanced b-tagging techniques with modern software on ALEPH data converted to EDM4HEP format, showing the feasibility of complex data analysis with archived data.

Authors

Apranik Fatehi (University of Tehran (IR)) Birgit Stapf (CERN) Gerardo Ganis (CERN) Jacopo Fanini (CERN & Université Paris-Saclay) Loukas Gouskos (Brown University (US)) Luka Lambrecht (Brown University (US)) Matteo Defranchis (CERN) Michele Selvaggi (CERN) Taj Sebastian Gillin (Brown University (US)) Zihan Ma (Brown University (US))

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