Funding

Grants & Funding

2027 – 2028 (if awarded) Application In Progress
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, K⁰L, 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.