11–13 Dec 2017
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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Identifying QCD transition using convolution neural network (15'+5')

12 Dec 2017, 11:50
20m
2-100 (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

2-100

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Speaker

Long Pang

Description

The initial state fluctuations in relativistic heavy ion collisions are converted to the final state correlations of soft particles in momentum space, through strong collective expansion of the quark gluon plasma (QGP) and the QCD transition from QGP to hadrons. The patterns (equations of state) encoded in the relativistic hydrodynamic evolution are extracted from the final particle spectra rho(pt, phi) using supervised learning with a deep convolution neural network (DCNN). Comparisons with traditional machine learning methods (such as support vector machine, decision trees and random forests…) show that the DCNN is very good at decoding physical information from complex and dynamical evolving systems.

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