Heavy-Flavor Frontier: Tagging in ATLAS with Transformers

Jul 29, 2025, 10:50 AM
20m
Barus and Holley 168 (Brown University)

Barus and Holley 168

Brown University

184 Hope St, Providence, RI 02912
Oral Presentation Plenary Talks

Speaker

Zhi Zheng

Description

Accurate identification of jets that originate from heavy-flavor hadrons is pivotal for many ATLAS analyses, from Higgs-boson and top-quark measurements to searches for new physics. We present the newest heavy-flavor taggers from ATLAS, which introduces a full-transformer architecture tailored to the environment of Run 2 and Run 3.

The flavor tagging transformer processes low-level track, vertex, neutral particle, and muon information to extract correlations between the inputs and infer the origin of the jet. Compared with the current Run 3 baseline, the new model achieves better separation of $b$- and $c$-jets from light-flavor jets across a wide kinematic phase-space.

In this talk, we will discuss the architecture and training workflow, as well as the newest results. Applications in boosted object tagging or trigger may also be discussed.

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