Year: 2025
Type: preprint
Abstract: Machine Learning (ML)-based unfolding methods have enabled high-dimensional and unbinned differential cross section measurements. While a suite of such methods has been proposed, most focus exclusively on the challenge of statistically removing resolution effects. In practice, unfolding methods must also account for impurities and finite acceptance and efficiency effects. In this paper, we extend a class of unfolding methods based on generative ML to include the full suite of effects relevant for cross section measurements. Our new methods include fully generative solutions as well as generative-discriminative hybrid approaches (GenFoldG and GenFoldC). We demonstrate these new techniques in both Gaussian and simulated LHC examples. Overall, we find that both methods are able to accommodate all effects, thus adding a complementary and analysis-ready method to the unfolding toolkit.
Authors: Butter, Anja, Huetsch, Nathan, Mikuni, Vinicius, Nachman, Benjamin, Schweitzer, Sofia Palacios
Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7079994348
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