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Title: Anomaly detection with flow-based fast calorimeter simulators

Journal Article · · Physical Review. D.
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  1. Heidelberg Univ. (Germany); Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna (Austria). Institute of High Energy Physics (HEPHY)
  2. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); University of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
  3. Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ (United States)
  4. Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ (United States); Northeastern Univ., Boston, MA (United States)

Recently, several normalizing flow-based deep generative models have been proposed to accelerate the simulation of calorimeter showers. Using caloflow as an example, we show that these models can simultaneously perform unsupervised anomaly detection with no additional training cost. As a demonstration, we consider electromagnetic showers initiated by one (background) or multiple (signal) photons. The caloflow model is designed to generate single-photon showers, but it also provides access to the shower likelihood. We use this likelihood as an anomaly score and study the showers tagged as being unlikely. As expected, the tagger struggles when the signal photons are nearly collinear but is otherwise effective. This approach is complementary to a supervised classifier trained on only specific signal models using the same low-level calorimeter inputs. While the supervised classifier is also highly effective at unseen signal models, the unsupervised method is more sensitive in certain regions, and, thus, we expect that the ultimate performance will require a combination of these approaches.

Research Organization:
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE; USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-05CH11231; SC0010008
OSTI ID:
2438516
Journal Information:
Physical Review. D., Journal Name: Physical Review. D. Journal Issue: 3 Vol. 110; ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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