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The dominant (excluding rare decays to kaons, which are not considered here.) |
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hadronic decays of taus consist of a varying number of charged and neutral |
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pions. The neutral pions undergo prompt decay to photon pairs. These decays |
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proceed through intermediate resonances, given in |
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table~\ref{table:decay_modes}. Each of these decay modes uniquely maps to a |
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tau final state multiplicity, and each resonance has a different invariant |
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mass. This implies that the problem of hadronic tau identification can be |
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reframed from a global search for collimated hadrons under the tau mass into an |
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ensemble of searches for single production of the various decay resonances |
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given in table~\ref{table:decay_modes}. In this paper, we present a novel |
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algorithm, the ``Tau Neural Classifier'' (TaNC) which uses this approach to |
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improve on traditional tau-ID strategies. |
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The dominant hadronic decays of taus consist of a one or three charged |
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$\pi^{\pm}$ mesons and up to two $\pi^0$ mesons and are enumerated in |
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table~\ref{table:decay_modes}. Most of these decays proceed through |
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intermediate resonances and each of these decay modes maps directly to a tau |
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final state multiplicity. Each intermediate resonance has a different invariant |
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mass (see figure~\ref{fig:trueInvMass}. The implies that the problem of |
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hadronic tau identification can be re-framed from a global search for collimated |
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hadrons satisfying the tau mass constraint into a ensemble of searches for |
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single production of the different hadronic tau decay resonances. The TaNC |
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algorithm applies this approach using two complimentary techniques: a method to |
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reconstruct the decay mode and an ensemble of neural network classifiers used to |
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discriminant the individual decay modes. |
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\begin{table} |
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\caption{Visible products of hadronic tau decays} |
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\centering |
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\begin{tabular}{ l c r r } |
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Visible Decay Products & Resonance & Mass (M$e$V/$c^2$) & Fraction \\ |
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Visible Decay Products & Resonance & Mass (M$e$V/$c^2$) & |
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Fraction~\ref{pdtTauBR} \\ |
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\hline |
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$\pi^{-}$ & n/a & 135 & fixme \\ |
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$\pi^{-}\pi^0$ & $\rho$ & 770 & fixme \\ |
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$\pi^{-}\pi^0\pi^0$ & $a1$ & 1200 & fixme \\ |
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$\pi^{-}\pi^{-}\pi^{+}$ & $a1$ & 1200 & fixme \\ |
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$\pi^{-}\pi^{-}\pi^{+}\pi^0$ & $a1$ & 1200 & fixme \\ |
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$\pi^{-}$ & n/a & 135 & 10.9\% \\ |
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$\pi^{-}\pi^0$ & $\rho$ & 770 & 25.5\% \\ |
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$\pi^{-}\pi^0\pi^0$ & $a1$ & 1200 & 9.3\% \\ |
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$\pi^{-}\pi^{-}\pi^{+}$ & $a1$ & 1200 & 9.03\% \\ |
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$\pi^{-}\pi^{-}\pi^{+}\pi^0$ & $a1$ & 1200 & 4.5\% \\ |
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Total & & & 65\% \\ |
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Total & & & 59.2\% \\ |
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\hline |
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Other hadronic modes & & & 5.59\% \\ |
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\end{tabular} |
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\label{table:decay_modes} |
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\label{tab:decay_modes} |
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\caption{Resonances and branching ratios of the dominant hadronic decays of |
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the tau lepton.} |
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\end{table} |
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\begin{figure}[t] |
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\begin{center} |
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\includegraphics[width=60mm]{figures/truthIMvsDM.pdf} |
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\end{center} |
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\caption{The invariant mass of the visible decay products in hadronic tau |
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decays. The decay mode $\tau^{-} \rightarrow \pi^{-} \nu_\tau$ is omitted. |
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The different decay modes have different invariant masses corresponding to |
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the intermediate resonance in the decay.} |
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\label{fig:trueInvMass} |
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\end{figure} |
