arXiv:2509.14894cs.LGhep-ex2025-09被引 1

用强化学习与遗传算法自动识别粒子物理背景,提升分析效率与准确性。

Leveraging Reinforcement Learning, Genetic Algorithms and Transformers for background determination in particle physics

  • 结合强化学习与遗传算法,系统探索背景衰变路径
  • 利用Transformer处理衰变序列,提升复杂场景建模能力
  • 适用于各类粒子物理测量,减少对专家经验依赖

美丽强子衰变的实验研究面临巨大挑战,因其存在大量可能衰变道导致的背景干扰,这些衰变道末态相似。针对特定信号衰变,确定关键背景过程需详细分析末态粒子、误识别可能性及运动学重叠,但受计算限制,通常仅能模拟最相关背景。此外,该过程高度依赖物理学家的直觉,缺乏系统方法。本文有两个主要目标:从粒子物理角度,提出一种新方法,利用强化学习(RL)系统化识别影响美丽强子衰变测量的关键背景,虽以美丽强子为例,但策略具广泛适用性;从机器学习角度,引入一种新算法,通过融合RL与遗传算法(GAs),在稀疏奖励和大轨迹空间环境中高效探索并识别成功轨迹,指导RL训练。方法还采用变压器架构(Transformer)作为RL代理,处理表示衰变的标记序列。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Experimental studies of beauty hadron decays face significant challenges due to a wide range of backgrounds arising from the numerous possible decay channels with similar final states. For a particular signal decay, the process for ascertaining the most relevant background processes necessitates a detailed analysis of final state particles, potential misidentifications, and kinematic overlaps, which, due to computational limitations, is restricted to the simulation of only the most relevant backgrounds. Moreover, this process typically relies on the physicist's intuition and expertise, as no systematic method exists. This paper has two primary goals. First, from a particle physics perspective, we present a novel approach that utilises Reinforcement Learning (RL) to overcome the aforementioned challenges by systematically determining the critical backgrounds affecting beauty hadron decay measurements. While beauty hadron physics serves as the case study in this work, the proposed strategy is broadly adaptable to other types of particle physics measurements. Second, from a Machine Learning perspective, we introduce a novel algorithm which exploits the synergy between RL and Genetic Algorithms (GAs) for environments with highly sparse rewards and a large trajectory space. This strategy leverages GAs to efficiently explore the trajectory space and identify successful trajectories, which are used to guide the RL agent's training. Our method also incorporates a transformer architecture for the RL agent to handle token sequences representing decays.

强化学习粒子物理遗传算法Transformer

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