Deep learning for quark–gluon plasma detection in the CBM experiment

Abstract

Classification of processes in heavy-ion collisions in the CBM experiment (FAIR/GSI, Darmstadt) using neural networks is investigated. Fully-connected neural networks and a deep convolutional neural network are built to identify quark–gluon plasma simulated within the Parton-Hadron-String Dynamics (PHSD) microscopic off-shell transport approach for central Au+Au collision at a fixed energy. The convolutional neural network outperforms fully-connected networks and reaches 93% accuracy on the validation set, while the remaining only 7% of collisions are incorrectly classified.