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Main Authors: Mengel, Tanner, Steffanic, Patrick, Hughes, Charles, da Silva, Antonio Carlos Oliveira, Nattrass, Christine
Format: Preprint
Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.08275
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  • Jet measurements in heavy ion collisions can provide constraints on the properties of the quark gluon plasma, but the kinematic reach is limited by a large, fluctuating background. We present a novel application of symbolic regression to extract a functional representation of a deep neural network trained to subtract the background for measurements of jets in relativistic heavy ion collisions. We show that the deep neural network is approximately the same as a method using the particle multiplicity in a jet. This demonstrates that interpretable machine learning methods can provide insight into underlying physical processes.