19–21 Aug 2026
Niels Bohr Building
Europe/Copenhagen timezone

Transformer-encoded normalizing flows and their application to directional reconstruction in IceCube

20 Aug 2026, 10:20
20m
Margrethe Bohr Salen (Niels Bohr Building)

Margrethe Bohr Salen

Niels Bohr Building

Jagtvej 155a, Copenhagen

Speaker

Thorsten Glu

Description

The directional reconstruction of IceCube neutrinos, including the estimation of uncertainties, is essential for point source searches. In recent years, per-event posterior estimation with normalizing flows has emerged as a powerful reconstruction technique for the direction. The first part of the talk will give an introduction to normalizing flows. The second part will describe recent results in their application to IceCube directional reconstruction in combination with transformers, which yields new state-of-the-art results for the angular resolution of the two main event topologies in IceCube: showers and tracks.

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