NSFC Research Fund for International Scientists (RFIS-I)
¥200k RMB / year
National Natural Science Foundation of China · Principal Investigator
A Unified Machine-Learning-Based Neutral Hadron Tagger for the BESIII Experiment.
This project proposes the first software-based solution to compensate for the absence of
a hadronic calorimeter in the
BESIII detector, using transformer-based deep neural
networks to identify and reconstruct neutral hadrons — neutrons, antineutrons,
K⁰
L, and neutral pions — from underutilised signals in the electromagnetic
calorimeter and time-of-flight systems. Preliminary models achieve AUC > 0.95 across
all hadron classes. The framework will be integrated into the
BESIII Offline Software
System and will extend
BESIII's physics reach to channels involving neutral hadrons and
BSM searches. The project also explores hybrid quantum-classical machine learning
approaches.