9–11 May 2022
University of Pittsburgh
US/Eastern timezone

Modeling Hadronization using Machine Learning

9 May 2022, 15:00
15m
Lawrence Hall 203

Lawrence Hall 203

Speaker

Ahmed Youssef

Description

In this talk, I will present the first steps in the development of a new class of Hadronization Models utilizing machine learning techniques. We successfully implement, validate, and train a conditional sliced-Wasserstein autoencoder to replicate the Pythia generated kinematic distributions of first-hadron emissions when the Lund string model of hadronization implemented in Pythia is restricted to the emissions of pions only. The trained models are then used to generate the full hadronization chains, with an IR cutoff energy imposed externally. The hadron multiplicities and cumulative kinematic distributions are shown to match the Pythia generated ones. I will also discuss possible future generalizations of our results.

Author

Ahmed Youssef

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