Describing Hadronization via Histories and Observables for Monte-Carlo Event Reweighting

We introduce a novel method for extracting a fragmentation model directly from experimental data without requiring an explicit parametric form, called Histories and Observables for Monte-Carlo Event Reweighting (HOMER), consisting of three steps: the training of a classifier between simulation and d...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2024-10
Main Authors: Bierlich, Christian, Ilten, Phil, Menzo, Tony, Mrenna, Stephen, Szewc, Manuel, Wilkinson, Michael K, Youssef, Ahmed, Zupan, Jure
Format: Article
Language:English
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Fragmentation
Monte Carlo simulation
Pions
Strings
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Summary:We introduce a novel method for extracting a fragmentation model directly from experimental data without requiring an explicit parametric form, called Histories and Observables for Monte-Carlo Event Reweighting (HOMER), consisting of three steps: the training of a classifier between simulation and data, the inference of single fragmentation weights, and the calculation of the weight for the full hadronization chain. We illustrate the use of HOMER on a simplified hadronization problem, a \(q\bar{q}\) string fragmenting into pions, and extract a modified Lund string fragmentation function \(f(z)\). We then demonstrate the use of HOMER on three types of experimental data: (i) binned distributions of high level observables, (ii) unbinned event-by-event distributions of these observables, and (iii) full particle cloud information. After demonstrating that \(f(z)\) can be extracted from data (the inverse of hadronization), we also show that, at least in this limited setup, the fidelity of the extracted \(f(z)\) suffers only limited loss when moving from (i) to (ii) to (iii). Public code is available at https://gitlab.com/uchep/mlhad.
ISSN:2331-8422