S-matrix informed neural networks for amplitude analysis

arXiv:2608.23750v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reconstructing scattering amplitudes from finite, noisy, and mutually inconsistent measurements is an ill-posed inverse problem common to many reactions relevant to particle physics. We introduce S-matrix informed neural networks (SINNs), and demonstrate their ability to learn scattering amplitudes directly from data while respecting first principles. We further develop a novel data selection procedure, which uses the response of constrained neural network ensembles to identify a set of experiments compatible with first principles, and with each other. We apply this framework to pipi scattering, producing reusable amplitudes and correlated uncertainties without relying on a fixed functional form. We validate our results against residual model dependencies and training biases through closure tests and ablations. We find negligible impact of model architecture on our results. Our workflow unifies physics-constrained representation learning, data selection, and uncertainty quantification. Our strategy is transferable to other scattering processes, and other constrained physics problems limited by inconsistent data.

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Source: arXiv cs.LG | 2026-08-26