Machine Learning-Assisted Unfolding for Neutrino Cross-section Measurements with the OmniFold Technique

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Hauptverfasser: Huang, Roger G., Cudd, Andrew, Kawaue, Masaki, Kikawa, Tatsuya, Nachman, Benjamin, Mikuni, Vinicius, Wilkinson, Callum
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author Huang, Roger G.
Cudd, Andrew
Kawaue, Masaki
Kikawa, Tatsuya
Nachman, Benjamin
Mikuni, Vinicius
Wilkinson, Callum
author_facet Huang, Roger G.
Cudd, Andrew
Kawaue, Masaki
Kikawa, Tatsuya
Nachman, Benjamin
Mikuni, Vinicius
Wilkinson, Callum
contents The choice of unfolding method for a cross-section measurement is tightly coupled to the model dependence of the efficiency correction and the overall impact of cross-section modeling uncertainties in the analysis. A key issue is the dimensionality used in unfolding, as the kinematics of all outgoing particles in an event typically affect the reconstruction performance in a neutrino detector. OmniFold is an unfolding method that iteratively reweights a simulated dataset, using machine learning to utilize arbitrarily high-dimensional information, that has previously been applied to proton-proton and proton-electron datasets. This paper demonstrates OmniFold's application to a neutrino cross-section measurement for the first time using a public T2K near detector simulated dataset, comparing its performance with traditional approaches using a mock data study.
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spellingShingle Machine Learning-Assisted Unfolding for Neutrino Cross-section Measurements with the OmniFold Technique
Huang, Roger G.
Cudd, Andrew
Kawaue, Masaki
Kikawa, Tatsuya
Nachman, Benjamin
Mikuni, Vinicius
Wilkinson, Callum
Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
High Energy Physics - Experiment
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
The choice of unfolding method for a cross-section measurement is tightly coupled to the model dependence of the efficiency correction and the overall impact of cross-section modeling uncertainties in the analysis. A key issue is the dimensionality used in unfolding, as the kinematics of all outgoing particles in an event typically affect the reconstruction performance in a neutrino detector. OmniFold is an unfolding method that iteratively reweights a simulated dataset, using machine learning to utilize arbitrarily high-dimensional information, that has previously been applied to proton-proton and proton-electron datasets. This paper demonstrates OmniFold's application to a neutrino cross-section measurement for the first time using a public T2K near detector simulated dataset, comparing its performance with traditional approaches using a mock data study.
title Machine Learning-Assisted Unfolding for Neutrino Cross-section Measurements with the OmniFold Technique
topic Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
High Energy Physics - Experiment
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.06857