Riemannian Data preprocessing in Machine Learning to focus on QCD color structure

Abstract

Identifying the quantum chromodynamics (QCD) color structure of processes provides additional information to enhance the reach for new physics searches at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Analyses of QCD color structure in the decay process of a boosted particle have been spotted as information becomes well localized in the limited phase space. While these kind of a boosted jet analyses provide an efficient way to identify a color structure, the constrained phase space reduces the number of available data, resulting in a low significance. In this letter, we provide a simple but a novel data preprocessing method using a Riemann sphere to utilize a full phase space by decorrelating QCD structure from a kinematics. We can achieve a statistical stability by enlarging the size of testable data set with focusing on QCD structure effectively. We demonstrate the power of our method at the finite statistics of the LHC Run 2. Our method is complementary to conventional boosted jet analyses in utilizing QCD information over the wide range of a phase space.

6 pages, 8 figures

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