Machine learning in the search for new fundamental physics

G Karagiorgi, G Kasieczka, S Kravitz… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Compelling experimental evidence suggests the existence of new physics beyond the well-
established and tested standard model of particle physics. Various current and upcoming …

[HTML][HTML] Applications and techniques for fast machine learning in science

AMC Deiana, N Tran, J Agar, M Blott… - Frontiers in big …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
In this community review report, we discuss applications and techniques for fast machine
learning (ML) in science—the concept of integrating powerful ML methods into the real-time …

Search for an excess of electron neutrino interactions in MicroBooNE using multiple final-state topologies

P Abratenko, R An, J Anthony, L Arellano, J Asaadi… - Physical review …, 2022 - APS
We present a measurement of ν e interactions from the Fermilab Booster Neutrino Beam
using the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber to address the nature of the …

Heavy neutral leptons below the kaon mass at hodoscopic neutrino detectors

CA Argüelles, N Foppiani, M Hostert - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
Heavy neutral leptons (N) below the kaon mass are severely constrained by cosmology and
lab-based searches for their decays in flight. If N interacts via an additional force, N→ ν e+ e …

[HTML][HTML] Reconstructing the kinematics of deep inelastic scattering with deep learning

M Arratia, D Britzger, O Long, B Nachman - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2022 - Elsevier
We introduce a method to reconstruct the kinematics of neutral-current deep inelastic
scattering (DIS) using a deep neural network (DNN). Unlike traditional methods, it exploits …

Wire-cell 3D pattern recognition techniques for neutrino event reconstruction in large LArTPCs: algorithm description and quantitative evaluation with MicroBooNE …

P Abratenko, R An, J Anthony, L Arellano… - Journal of …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Wire-Cell is a 3D event reconstruction package for liquid argon time projection chambers.
Through geometry, time, and drifted charge from multiple readout wire planes, 3D space …

Search for an anomalous excess of charged-current quasielastic interactions with the MicroBooNE experiment using Deep-Learning-based reconstruction

P Abratenko, R An, J Anthony, L Arellano, J Asaadi… - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
We present a measurement of the ν e-interaction rate in the MicroBooNE detector that
addresses the observed MiniBooNE anomalous low-energy excess (LEE). The approach …

Neutral-current background induced by atmospheric neutrinos at large liquid-scintillator detectors. I. Model predictions

J Cheng, YF Li, LJ Wen, S Zhou - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
The experimental searches for diffuse supernova neutrino background and proton decay in
next-generation large liquid-scintillator (LS) detectors are competitive with and …

Graph neural network for neutrino physics event reconstruction

A Aurisano, V Hewes, G Cerati, J Kowalkowski, CS Lee… - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
Liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) detector technology offers a wealth of high-
resolution information on particle interactions, and leveraging that information to its full …

Detector signal characterization with a Bayesian network in XENONnT

E Aprile, K Abe, S Ahmed Maouloud, L Althueser… - Physical review D, 2023 - APS
We developed a detector signal characterization model based on a Bayesian network
trained on the waveform attributes generated by a dual-phase xenon time projection …