UFRGS-HEP Journal Club
Wednesday 11 May 2022 -
18:00
Monday 9 May 2022
Tuesday 10 May 2022
Wednesday 11 May 2022
18:00
Gustavo Bobsin
Gustavo Bobsin
18:00 - 19:00
Phenomenology at the Large Hadron Collider with Deep Learning: the case of vector-like quarks decaying to light jets Felipe F. Freitas, João Gonçalves, António P. Morais, Roman Pasechnik Hide abstract | Show figures | Show BibTeX | Show discussion | View PDF | 2204.12542v1 In this work, we continue our exploration of TeV-scale vector-like fermion signatures inspired by a Grand Unification scenario based on the trinification gauge group. A particular focus is given to pair-production topologies of vector-like quarks (VLQs) at the LHC, in a multi-jet plus a charged lepton and a missing energy signature. We employ Deep Learning methods and techniques based in evolutive algorithms that optimize hyper-parameters in the neural network construction, whose objective is to maximise the Asimov estimate for distinct VLQ masses. In this article, we consider the implications of an innovative approach by simultaneously combining detector images (also known as jet images) and tabular data containing kinematic information from the final states. With this technique we are able to exclude VLQs, that are specific for the considered model, to up a mass of 1.2 TeV in both the high-luminosity the Run-III phases of the LHC programme. Authors' comments: 21 pages, 3 tables and 8 figures