Discriminating QCD Compton and Quark-Antiquark Annihilation Processes in ${\hat{I}}^3$ + Jets Using Interpretable Machine Learning

Monalini Samal, Nihar Ranjan Sahoo

We investigate how effectively final-state jet substructure can discriminate between QCD Compton and quark-antiquark annihilation processes from photon-jet production in $pp$ colli…