8–10 Apr 2026
John McIntyre Conference Centre
Europe/London timezone

Boosted Top Jet Tagging Based on LundNet

10 Apr 2026, 11:30
15m
John McIntyre Conference Centre

John McIntyre Conference Centre

Pollock Halls, 18 Holyrood Park Rd, Edinburgh EH16 5AY
Parallel talk Machine learning and reconstruction Parallel Talks

Speaker

Yuanda Zhu (UCL)

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This study investigates the enhancement of boosted top quark tagging at the ATLAS detector by integrating jet substructure features, captured through the Lund Jet Plane (LJP) and the LundNet Graph Neural Network, with b-tagging information from the GN3X transformer model. The study demonstrates that combining these orthogonal data sources improves background rejection compared to using individual taggers, revealing that the inclusion of b-tagging information (secondary vertices) is a dominant factor in improving discrimination power. Despite the challenges of mass sculpting, where the networks learn the top quark mass as a primary discriminator, the results provide a preliminary validation for using multi-tagger workflows to optimize signal purity for future analyses, such as charm quark direction reconstruction in $W \to cq$ decays

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