Invariant Representation Driven Neural Classifier for Anti-QCD Jet Tagging
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We leverage representation learning and the inductive bias in neural-net-based Standard Model jet classification tasks, to detect non-QCD signal jets. In establishing the framework for classification-based anomaly detection in jet physics, we demonstrate that with a well-calibrated and powerful enough feature extractor, a well-trained mass-decorrelated supervised neural jet tagger can serve as a strong generic anti-QCD jet tagger for effectively reducing the QCD background. Imposing data-augmented mass-invariance (decoupling the dominant factor) not only facilitates background estimation, but also induces more substructure-aware representation learning. We are able to reach excellent tagging efficiencies for all the test signals considered. In the best case, we reach a background rejection rate around 50 and a significance improvement factor of 3.6 at 50 % signal acceptance, with jet mass decorrelated. This study indicates that supervised Standard Model jet classifiers have great potential in general new physics searches.
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