12th International Workshop on Boosted Object Phenomenology, Reconstruction and Searches in HEP (BOOST 2020 webinars)

20 Jul 2020, 14:00 → 24 Jul 2020, 18:00 Europe/Zurich

Online

Roman Kogler (Hamburg University (DE)), Andreas Hinzmann (Hamburg University (DE))

BOOST 2020 is the twelfth conference of a series of successful joint theory/experiment workshops that bring together the world's leading experts from theory and LHC experiments. Our aim are lively discussions about the latest progress in this field and the exchange of expertise to generate new ideas, in order develop new approaches on the reconstruction and use of boosted decay topologies in particle physics and beyond.

Due to international travel restrictions, the BOOST workshop will be carried out in a special online format in July 2020. A one-week series of web seminars is planned with two seminars and a poster discussion session per day. We call for abstracts for a poster session with more details on the call for abstracts page.

The next in-person workshop in Hamburg is foreseen in 2021.

The BOOST conference series cover the following topics:

• Phenomenology and searches using jet substructure
• New jet substructure observables and algorithms
• QCD measurements and modeling
• Jet reconstruction performance
• Machine learning
• Pileup mitigation
• Heavy-ion collisions
• Future colliders

On July 16-17 (just before BOOST starts), there will be a satellite mini-workshop on anomaly detection: LHC Summer Olympics 2020.

Previous BOOST editions:

• SLAC (2009)
• Oxford (2010)
• Princeton (2011)
• Valencia (2012)
• Flagstaff (2013)
• London (2014)
• Chicago (2015)
• Zurich (2016)
• Buffalo (2017)
• Paris (2018)
• Boston (2019)

Venue

Monday 20 July

15:00 → 17:00 Session 1: New techniques

Conveners: Andreas Hinzmann (Hamburg University (DE)), Roman Kogler (Hamburg University (DE))

15:00 Welcome

Speakers: Andreas Hinzmann (Hamburg University (DE)), Roman Kogler (Hamburg University (DE))

200720 - BOOST welcome.pdf

15:10 Advances in jet substructure techniques (including ML)

Speaker: Reina Coromoto Camacho Toro (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

20200720_BOOST2020_Camacho_nobackup_v2.pdf

recording.mp4

16:10 Theoretical advances in jet substructure (including ML)

Speaker: Dr Simone Marzani (Università di Genova and INFN Genova)

marzani-theory.pdf

recording.mp4

17:00 → 18:00 Session 6: Discussion session

17:00 Anomaly Awareness for new physics searches

In this talk we will present a new algorithm to search for new physics called Anomaly Awareness. By making our algorithm 'aware' of the presence of a range of different anomalies, we improve its capability to detect anomalous events even when it hasn't been exposed to them in the past. As an example, we apply this method to boosted jets and use it to uncover new resonances or EFT effects.

Anomaly Awareness for new physics searches - Presentation

Anomaly Awareness for new physics searches - Slides

Discussion zoom room 3

17:00 Disentangling Boosted Higgs Boson Production Modes with Machine Learning

Higgs Bosons produced via gluon-gluon fusion (ggF) with large transverse momentum ($p_T$) are sensitive probes of physics Beyond the Standard Model. However, high $p_T$ Higgs Boson production is contaminated by a diversity of production modes other than ggF: vector boson fusion, production of a Higgs boson in association with a vector boson and with a top-quark pair. Combining jet substructure and event information with modern machine learning, we demonstrate the ability to focus on particular production modes. These tools hold great discovery potential for boosted Higgs bosons produced via ggF and may also provide additional information about the Higgs Boson sector of the Standard Model in extreme phase space regions for other production modes as well.

Discussion zoom room 1

Disentangling Boosted Higgs Boson Production Modes with Machine Learning

Disentangling Boosted Higgs Boson Production Modes with Machine Learning.pdf

17:00 ML approach to VBF event topology classification: Recurrent Neural Network based on jets information

A new approach for the identification of VBF topology is presented. A Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) approach based on the 4-momentum of the small-R jets in the event has been developed in the context of the search of high mass resonances decaying into diboson semi-leptonic final states (X —> VV —> vv/lv/ll + qq). The class of RNN networks shows high performances and opportunity to deal with variable length input set as the 4-momentum of jets in an event. The analysis is performing the classification of VBF vs ggF/DY events based on the score of the RNN before the full analysis flow. This method shows higher classification performances and an higher signal
efficiency respect to usual approaches based on the tagging of the VBF-like jets. The simple 4-momentum (low-level variables) of the small-R jets in the event are used instead of other variables built starting from them (high-level variables). Furthermore, this approach based on jets information of the event is independent by the lepton channel of the diboson decay and it has been used for different spin hypothesis.

Speaker: Antonio Giannini (Universita e sezione INFN di Napoli (IT))

BOOST2020_posterAG.pdf

Discussion zoom room 2

VideoBOOST2020_AG.m4v

17:00 Quantum information and entanglement with top quarks at the LHC

Entanglement is a key subject in quantum information theory. Due to its genuine relativistic and fundamental nature, high-energy colliders are attractive systems for the experimental study of quantum information theory. We propose the detection of entanglement between the spins of top-antitop quark pairs at the LHC, representing the first proposal of entanglement detection in a pair of quarks, and also the entanglement observation at the highest energy scale so far. We show that entanglement can be observed by direct measurement of the angular separation between the leptons arising from the decay of the top-antitop pair. The detection can be achieved with more than 5 statistical deviations, using the current data recorded at the LHC. In addition, we develop a simple protocol to implement the quantum tomography of the top-antitop pair, providing a new experimental tool to test theoretical predictions for the quantum state of the top-antitop pair. Our work explicitly implements canonical experimental techniques of the quantum information field, paving the way to use high-energy colliders to study quantum information theory.

Discussion zoom room 4

Entanglement_Recording.mov

Entanglement_Slides_Boost.pdf

Tuesday 21 July

15:00 → 17:00 Session 2: Measurements and Calculations

Convener: Andrew Larkoski (Reed Collge)

15:00 Substructure measurements

Speaker: Christine Angela McLean (SUNY Buffalo)

JetSubstructureMeasurements_corrected.pdf

JetSubstructureMeasurements.pdf

recording1.mp4

16:00 Substructure calculations and modelling

Speaker: Ian James Moult

IanMoult_BOOST_2020(1).pdf

recording2.mp4

17:00 → 18:00 Session 6: Discussion session

17:00 A Robust Measure of Event Isotropy at Colliders

We introduce a new event shape observable -- event isotropy -- that quantifies how close the radiation pattern of a collider event is to a uniform distribution. This observable is based on a normalized version of the energy mover's distance, which is the minimum "work" needed to rearrange one radiation pattern into another of equal energy. We investigate the utility of event isotropy both at electron-positron colliders, where events are compared to a perfectly spherical radiation pattern, as well as at proton-proton colliders, where the natural comparison is to either cylindrical or ring-like patterns. Compared to traditional event shape observables like sphericity and thrust, event isotropy exhibits a larger dynamic range for high-multiplicity events. This enables event isotropy to not only distinguish between dijet and multijet processes but also separate uniform N-body phase space configurations for different values of N. As a key application of this new observable, we study its performance to characterize strongly-coupled new physics scenarios with isotropic collider signatures.

Discussion zoom room 5

isotropyBOOSTcesarotti.mp4

17:00 Calculation for Non-global Logarithms with Neural Networks

High-precision all-order calculations can only be performed for a narrow class of observables, which are sensitive to radiation over the entire final state phase-space. When phase-space boundaries are introduced, the resummation is affected by so-called non-global logarithms, which have an intricate all-order structure. In this talk, we present a first-principle calculation for the non-global logarithms, and some improvements for higher-order calculation and resummation are proposed with artificial neural networks, which can dramatically speed up needed theory calculations.

Boost2020-Chang.pdf

Discussion zoom room 1

NGLs-with-NN.mp4

17:00 Groomed jet mass as a direct probe of collinear parton dynamics

We study the link between parton dynamics in the collinear limit and the logarithmically enhanced terms of the groomed jet mass distribution, for jets groomed with the modified mass-drop tagger (mMDT). While the leading logarithmic structure is linked to collinear evolution with leading-order splitting kernels, here we derive the NLL structure directly from triple-collinear splitting functions. The calculation we present is a fixed-order calculation in the triple-collinear limit, independent of resummation ingredients and methods. It therefore constitutes a powerful cross-check of the NLL results derived using the SCET formalism and provides much of the insight needed for resummation within the traditional QCD approach.

Discussion zoom room 2

Groomed_Jet_Mass_Poster_JH.pdf

JackHelliwell_Groomed_Jet_Mass.mp4

17:00 Measurement of boosted top quark pair production

A measurement of the production cross section for high transverse momentum top quark pairs is reported. The data set was collected during 2016 with the CMS detector at the LHC from pp collisions at 13 TeV, and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb-1. The measurement uses events where either both top quark candidates decay hadronically and are reconstructed as large-radius jets with pt>400 GeV, or where one top quark decays hadronically and is identified as a single large-radius jet with pt>400 GeV and the other top quark decays leptonically to a b jet, an electron or a muon, and a neutrino. The cross section is extracted differentially as a function of kinematic variables of the top quark or the top quark pair system. The results are presented at the particle level, within a region of phase space close to that of the experimental acceptance, and at the parton level, and are compared to various theoretical models. The measured differential cross sections are significantly lower in both decay channels in the phase space of interest, compared to the theory predictions, while the normalized differential cross sections are consistent between data and theory.

Boost2020_poster_papakrivopoulos.pdf

Discussion zoom room 6

17:00 Multi-Differential and Unbinned Measurements of Hadronic Event Shapes in e+e- Collisions at sqrt(s)=91 GeV from ALEPH Open Data

First results are presented on the use of a new machine-learning based unfolding technique, OmniFold, applied to archival hadronic e+e- collisions using 730 pb^-1 of data collected at 91 GeV with the ALEPH detector at LEP. With the archived data and unfolding procedure, multiple classic hadronic event-shape variables are measured in a fully unbinned and multi-differential manner. Of particular interest, the differential distribution of log one minus thrust is presented and is expected to be helpful for extracting alpha_s via a fit to precision QCD calculations. The analysis is accompanied by a public release of the archived data set and the unfolding results, so that users may make their own versions of plots, either with different binning or with different combinations of observables in a multi-differential distribution.

ALEPH Omnifold 072120.pdf

Discussion zoom room 7

Talk by Anthony Badea

17:00 Search for Boosted Higgs decaying into bottom quark pairs in CMS

I will present the search for boosted Higgs boson with transverse momentum greater than 450 GeV decaying into bottom quark pairs using LHC full run 2 dataset collected by the CMS experiment.
In this search, we employed the latest jet substructure variables and b-tagging techniques based on a deep neural network to reduce the overwhelming QCD backgrounds.
An excess of events above background is observed with a local significance of 2.5 standard deviation, while the expectation is 0.7.
The measured Higgs production cross sections is also presented as a function of transverse momentum of the Higgs boson and compared with the latest gluon-gluon fusion prediction with finite top-mass corrections.

Boost2020_Hbb_martin.pdf

Discussion zoom room 4

YouTube Link

17:00 Towards Machine Learning Analytics for Jet Substructure

The past few years have seen a rapid development of machine-learning algorithms. While surely augmenting performance, these complex tools are often treated as black-boxes and may impair our understanding of the physical processes under study. Moving a first step into the direction of applying expert-knowledge in particle physics, we test whether the optimal decision function is achieved by standard training. In particular, we consider the binary classification problem of discriminating quark-initiated jets from gluon-initiated ones. We construct a new version of the widely used N-subjettiness variable, which features a simpler theoretical behaviour than the original one, while maintaining, if not exceeding, the discrimination power. We input these new observables to the simplest possible neural network, the one made by a single neuron (perceptron) and we analytically study the network behaviour at leading logarithmic accuracy. We are able to determine under which circumstances the perceptron achieves optimal performance. We also compare our analytic findings to an actual implementation of a perceptron and to a more realistic neural network and find very good agreement.

Discussion zoom room 3

Towards_ML_analytics_21jul.pdf

Towards_ML_analytics.mp4

Wednesday 22 July

15:00 → 17:00 Session 3: Heavy Ions

Convener: Philip Coleman Harris (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))

15:00 CANCELED (Theoretical advances in jet substructure for heavy ion physics)

Speaker: Dr Guilherme Milhano (LIP-Lisbon & CERN TH)

16:00 Experimental advances in jet substructure for heavy ion physics

Speaker: Marta Verweij (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))

200722_JetsInHI.pdf

recording.mp4

17:00 → 18:00 Session 6: Discussion session

17:00 Measurement of suppression of large-radius jets and its dependence on substructure in Pb+Pb with ATLAS

Measurements of the jet substructure in Pb+Pb collisions provide information about the mechanism of jet quenching in the hot and dense QCD medium created in these collisions, over a wide range of energy scales. This poster presents the ATLAS measurement of the suppression of yields of large-radius jets and its dependence on the jet substructure, characterized by the presence of sub-jets and their angular correlations. This measurement is performed using the large Pb+Pb data sample at the center-of-mass energy of 5.02 TeV recorded in 2018 and compared to the result from 2017 $pp$ collisions at the same collision energy. This study of the suppression of inclusive yields of large-$R$ jets brings new information about the evolution of the parton shower in the medium and tests the sensitivity of the jet quenching to the color coherence effects.

Speaker: Martin Krivos (Charles University (CZ))

Discussion zoom room 1

poster.pdf

Thursday 23 July

15:00 → 17:00 Session 4: Taggers

Convener: Peter Loch (University of Arizona (US))

15:00 Performance of jet reconstruction and tagging in ATLAS

Speaker: Steven Schramm (Universite de Geneve (CH))

recording-1.mp4

StevenSchramm-JetRecoTag.pdf

16:00 Performance of jet substructure taggers in CMS

Speaker: Loukas Gouskos (CERN)

lg-jettaggingindata-boost2020.pdf

recording-2.mp4

17:00 → 18:00 Session 6: Discussion session

17:00 Explainable AI for ML jet taggers using expert variables and layerwise relevance propagation

A method is presented to extract salient information from a deep neural network classifier of jet substructure tagging techniques, using expert variables that augment the inputs, using layerwise relevance propagation. The results show that these eXpert AUGmented (XAUG) variables can be used to easily interpret the behavior of the classifier, and in some cases can capture the behavior of the classifier completely. This can be used both to understand the behavior of complicated classifiers, and also to utilize them to guide development of expert variables that can encapsulate the physics the classifier is learning.

boost_XAI.pdf

BOOST_XAUG.mp4

Boost XAUG Youtube

Discussion zoom room 4

17:00 Machine Learning for Pion Identification and Energy Calibration with the ATLAS Detector

Separating charged and neutral pions as well as calibrating the pion energy response is a core component of reconstruction in the ATLAS calorimeter. This poster presents an investigation of deep learning techniques for these tasks, representing the signal in the ATLAS calorimeter layers as pixelated images. Machine learning approaches outperform the classification applied in the baseline local hadronic calibration and are able to improve the energy resolution for a wide range in particle momenta, especially for low energy pions. This work demonstrates the potential of machine-learning-based low-level hadronic calibrations to significantly improve the quality of particle reconstruction in the ATLAS calorimeter.

Speaker: Mr Dewen Zhong (Univ. Illinois at Urbana Champaign (US))

2020BOOST_ML_Pion_LC_study.pdf

2020BOOST.mov

Discussion zoom room 3

17:00 Pareto optimization for decorrelated taggers

Jet taggers that are decorrelated from certain observables, such as mass, are of increasing interest for experimental measurements.
Several methods have been proposed to design taggers that balance discrimination power against correlation.
As a fundamentally multi-objective optimization problem, there is an infinite set of Pareto-efficient solutions, known as the Pareto frontier.
We demonstrate that while most existing methods can generally converge to some solution near this frontier, there is often limited control over the exact trade-off point achieved, even when the surrogate objective includes a tunable hyperparameter.
We also demonstrate some qualitative features of this Pareto frontier using a toy model with an analytic likelihood, allowing us to probe the exact points at which optimal discrimination and decorrelation occur.
Lastly, we discuss the use of these qualitative features as a map for locating optimal working points for real-world taggers, for which no tractable likelihood is available.

boost_poster_small.mp4

Discussion zoom room 2

Friday 24 July

14:00 → 18:00 Session 5: Future

Conveners: Ben Nachman (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US)), Marcel Vos (IFIC Valencia (ES))

14:00 Future colliders theory

Speaker: Matthew Philip Mccullough (CERN)

Boost.pdf

recording_1.mp4

15:00 BOOST related developments for LHC-Phase2, FCC/SPPC

Speaker: Jennifer Kathryn Roloff (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

boost2020v2.pdf

recording_2.mp4

16:00 Discussion of BOOST contribution to Snowmass

JetsubstructureSnowmass2021.pdf

Letter of Interest