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Learning Standard Model structure from LHC data with Riemannian flow matching

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2026-07-17 v1 Machine Learning High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

In this work we demonstrate that a single transformer-based generative model can capture Standard Model structure spanning five decades of invariant mass, from the sub-GeV regime to the TeV continuum, a range that no single Monte Carlo sample covers. To achieve this we design \textsc{ShellFlow}, a Riemannian conditional flow matching model that, given the recorded event composition, generates each particle on its on-shell manifold. Its only physics priors are the on-shell condition and the invariant-mass formula. The model is trained on 109\sim 10^{9} real pppp collision events from the ATLAS Open Data 13~TeV release and told nothing else. From a single training run, the model learns to reproduce all of the following: intra-particle kinematics, the dilepton resonances (J/ψJ/\psi, Υ\Upsilon, ZZ) at their PDG positions, the leptonic Weinberg angle, the WW and top-quark masses, and inter-particle correlations that enter no training objective. A substantial fraction of the Standard Model is thus learnable directly from recorded collision data.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2607.16144,
  title  = {Learning Standard Model structure from LHC data with Riemannian flow matching},
  author = {Midori Kato and Kevin A. Urquía-Calderón and Inar Timiryasov and Oleg Ruchayskiy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.16144},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

35 pages, 25 figures