https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-024-13047-3
Regular Article - Experimental Physics
Machine-learning-based particle identification with missing data
1
Warsaw University of Technology, pl. Politechniki 1, 00-661, Warsaw, Poland
2
IDEAS NCBR, Chmielna 69, 00-801, Warsaw, Poland
3
CERN-European Organization for Nuclear Research, Espl. des Particules 1, 1211, Geneva, Switzerland
Received:
12
December
2023
Accepted:
17
June
2024
Published online:
13
July
2024
In this work, we introduce a novel method for Particle Identification (PID) within the scope of the ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Identifying products of ultrarelativisitc collisions delivered by the LHC is one of the crucial objectives of ALICE. Typically employed PID methods rely on hand-crafted selections, which compare experimental data to theoretical simulations. To improve the performance of the baseline methods, novel approaches use machine learning models that learn the proper assignment in a classification task. However, because of the various detection techniques used by different subdetectors, as well as the limited detector efficiency and acceptance, produced particles do not always yield signals in all of the ALICE components. This results in data with missing values. Out of the box machine learning solutions cannot be trained with such examples without either modifying the training dataset or re-designing the model architecture. In this work, we propose the new method for PID that addresses these issues and can be trained with all of the available data examples, including incomplete ones. Our approach improves the PID purity and efficiency of the selected sample for all investigated particle species.
The original online version of this article was revised. In this article the funding from the ‘Foundation for Polish Science (FNP)’ was omitted in the Acknowledgment section.
An erratum to this article is available online at https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-024-13429-7.
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