Machine Learning for Invisible Dark Boson Searches at the Electron-Ion Collider
We investigate whether adding $t$, the positive magnitude of the squared nuclear four-momentum transfer, enables boosted decision trees (BDTs) to improve invisible-dark-boson selection relative to optimized rectangular cuts at the Electron-Ion Collider. We model coherent exclusive scalar and vector production at generator level in electron-gold collisions at 18 GeV by 100 GeV per nucleon. Both methods use identical weighted samples, inputs, preselection, and optimization objectives. Using only electron information, the BDT provided no consistent advantage over optimized cuts for signal selection across 11 masses for each boson type. When both methods also use $t$, the BDT distinguishes si...
| Authors | Rojae Mighty, Ankush Reddy Kanuganti |
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| Primary category | hep-ph |
| Published | 18 September 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 18 September 2026 |
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