Volume 485 - The European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics (EPS-HEP2025) - T07 Flavour Physics and CP Violation
Refining Tau Identification with Domain Adaptation Techniques at CMS
S. Zakharov*  on behalf of the CMS Collaboration
*: corresponding author
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Pre-published on: February 06, 2026
Published on: March 11, 2026
Abstract
Hadronically decaying tau leptons are a challenging signature to study given it can be mimicked by quark and gluon jets, electrons, or muons. The identification of this signature via a convolutional neural network performed by CMS during the LHC Run 2 brought a massive improvement with respect to previous strategies. To further improve the identification and reconstruction of hadronic decays of tau leptons, CMS has deployed, as of the start of Run 3, a new algorithm: DeepTau v2.5. These proceedings present the performance resulting from these improvements in the network architecture using Run 2 data and showcases the use of domain adaptation techniques to improve the modelling of data.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.485.0347
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