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Marcello Campajola

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arXiv2026

Machine Learning Enables Real-Time Waveform Decomposition for Dual-Readout Calorimetry

Dual-readout calorimeters achieve superior energy resolution by simultaneously measuring Cherenkov and scintillation signals for event-by-event electromagnetic fraction correction, making them attractive for next-generation Higgs factories. However, if a full waveform readout is required for time-based analysis to separate Cherenkov and scintillation signals, high off-detector data rates might present challenges. These challenges can be mitigated by real-time signal processing in front-end electronics. We present a systematic comparison of machine learning (ML) and template fitting approaches for the separation of scintillation and Cherenkov light components in homogeneous dual-readout calorimeters across three representative crystal types. ML models achieve comparable signal extraction performance at lower sampling rates than template fitting. A single model trained over a range of incident particle energies demonstrates robust performance, and FPGA-compatible compression achieves latencies suitable for real-time application. This work establishes both baseline template fitting performance and ML-enhanced alternatives for crystal-based dual-readout calorimeters, offering practical pathways towards front-end feature extraction in future detector design.

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arXiv2022

Snowmass White Paper: Belle II physics reach and plans for the next decade and beyond

Belle II is an experiment operating at the intensity frontier. Over the next decades, it will record the decay of billions of bottom mesons, charm hadrons, and tau leptons produced in 10 GeV electron-positron collisions at the SuperKEKB high-luminosity collider at KEK. These data, collected in low-background and kinematically known conditions, will allow us to measure hundreds of parameters that test the standard model (SM) and probe for the existence of new particles, at mass scales orders of magnitudes higher than those studied at the energy frontier. We project our sensitivities for measurements that are of primary relevance and where Belle II will be unique or world leading for data corresponding to 1 to 50 ab$^{-1}$. Belle II will uniquely probe non-SM contributions in sensitive $b \to q\bar q s$ decays and charmless $b \to q\bar q d(u)$ decays, semileptonic $b \to s ν\barν$ and $s τ^+ τ^-$ decays, fully leptonic $b \to \ell ν$ decays, and select $c \to u$ processes. Belle II will lead exploration of non-SM physics in $b \to c τν$ and $b \to s γ$ decays and will most precisely determine the quark-mixing parameters $|V_{ub}|$ and $|V_{cb}|$. Belle II will measure many parameters in $τ$ physics to precisions that will be world leading for the foreseeable future, including the electric and magnetic dipole moments, branching fractions for charged-lepton-flavor-violating decays, and quantities that test lepton-flavor universality. Belle II will perform unique searches for dark-sector particles with masses in the MeV-GeV range. We will also pursue a broad spectroscopy program for conventional and multiquark $c \bar c$ and $b \bar b$ states and provide essential inputs to sharpen the interpretation of muon magnetic-anomaly results. Our exploration of uncharted regions of non-SM parameter space with high precision will reveal non-SM particles or set stringent constraints on their existence, guiding future endeavors.

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arXiv2022

Dark Sector first results at Belle II

Understanding the nature of dark matter is one of the most exciting challenges in fundamental physics nowadays, requiring the synergy of different search techniques, as well as theoretical inputs. An interesting opportunity for the investigation of dark matter is the one offered by the \textit{B}-factories. The Belle~II experiment, located at the interaction point of the SuperKEKB asymmetric energy $e^+e^-$ collider, is a new generation \textit{B}-factory experiment operating at the Japanese KEK laboratory. With a machine design luminosity of $6\times10^{35}\,\rm{cm}^{-2}s^{-1}$, Belle II aims to record 50 ab$^{-1}$ of data within the next decade. Thanks to this large data-sample and by using dedicated triggers, Belle~II is expected to explore dark sector candidates with unprecedented sensitivity in the mass range up to 10 GeV$/c^2$. During 2018, the experiment concluded a commissioning run, collecting a data-sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of about 0.5 fb$^{-1}$, while main operations started on March 2019 with an almost complete detector. So far the experiment collected an integrated luminosity of $\sim90\, \rm{fb}^{-1}$. With these data-sets Belle~II has already shown the possibility to search for a large variety of dark sector candidates in the GeV mass range. This paper reviews the status of the dark sector searches performed at the Belle~II experiment, with a focus on the first obtained results and the discovery potential with the data-set available in the short term.

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