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A deep-learning approach based on the transformer architecture is developed to distinguish between jets originating from quarks and gluons. The algorithm operates on jets with transverse momentum $p_{\text{T}} > 20$ and pseudorapidity…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-12-04 ATLAS Collaboration

Jet tagging has become an essential tool for new physics searches at the high-energy frontier. For jets that contain energetic charged leptons we introduce Feature Extended Supervised Tagging (FEST) which, in addition to jet substructure,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-01 J. A. Aguilar-Saavedra

Identifying the origin of high-energy hadronic jets ('jet tagging') has been a critical benchmark problem for machine learning in particle physics. Jets are ubiquitous at colliders and are complex objects that serve as prototypical examples…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-06 Joep Geuskens , Nishank Gite , Michael Krämer , Vinicius Mikuni , Alexander Mück , Benjamin Nachman , Humberto Reyes-González

We introduce a new and highly efficient tagger for hadronically decaying top quarks, based on a deep neural network working with Lorentz vectors and the Minkowski metric. With its novel machine learning setup and architecture it allows us…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-09-26 Anja Butter , Gregor Kasieczka , Tilman Plehn , Michael Russell

Convolutional neural networks are basic structures using jet images as input for the jet tagging problems. However, what they have learned during the training process is always difficult to understand just through feature maps. Inspired by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-02 Jing Li , Hao Sun

This paper describes a method for detecting a rare top quark decay into a charm quark and a Higgs boson (H), which decays further into b quarks, at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), and introduces a tagging algorithm to identify boosted tops…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-18 Shreecheta Chowdhury , Amit Chakraborty , Saunak Dutta

Recent developments in the methods of explainable AI (XAI) allow researchers to explore the inner workings of deep neural networks (DNNs), revealing crucial information about input-output relationships and realizing how data connects with…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-07-07 Ayush Khot , Mark S. Neubauer , Avik Roy

New particles beyond the Standard Model might be produced with a very high boost, for instance if they result from the decay of a heavier particle. If the former decay hadronically, then their signature is a single massive fat jet which is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-17 J. A. Aguilar-Saavedra , Jack H. Collins , Rashmish K. Mishra

The identification of hadronically decaying heavy states, such as vector bosons, the Higgs, or the top quark, produced with large transverse boosts has been and will continue to be a central focus of the jet physics program at the Large…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-27 Andrew J. Larkoski , Fabio Maltoni , Michele Selvaggi

Using deep neural networks for identifying physics objects at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has become a powerful alternative approach in recent years. After successful training of deep neural networks, examining the trained networks not…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-23 Taoli Cheng

The identification of jets originating from quarks and gluons, often referred to as quark/gluon tagging, plays an important role in various analyses performed at the Large Hadron Collider, as Standard Model measurements and searches for new…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-02-21 ATLAS Collaboration

At proposed future hadron colliders and in the coming years at the LHC, top quarks will be produced at genuinely multi-TeV energies. Top-tagging at such high energies forces us to confront several new issues in terms of detector…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-07 Zhenyu Han , Minho Son , Brock Tweedie

Jet flavour tagging is crucial in experimental high-energy physics. A tagging algorithm, DeepJetTransformer, is presented, which exploits a transformer-based neural network that is substantially faster to train than state-of-the-art graph…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-02-11 Freya Blekman , Florencia Canelli , Alexandre De Moor , Kunal Gautam , Armin Ilg , Anna Macchiolo , Eduardo Ploerer

This paper presents a novel method of searching for boosted hadronically decaying objects by treating them as anomalous elements of a contaminated dataset. A Variational Recurrent Neural Network (VRNN) is used to model jets as sequences of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-01 Alan Kahn , Julia Gonski , Inês Ochoa , Daniel Williams , Gustaaf Brooijmans

A novel deep neural network classifier, a ``Particle transformer'' (PaRT), is introduced for the identification of highly Lorentz-boosted resonances reconstructed as single, multipronged jets in measurements and searches performed by the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-04-14 CMS Collaboration

Based on the established task of identifying boosted, hadronically decaying top quarks, we compare a wide range of modern machine learning approaches. Unlike most established methods they rely on low-level input, for instance calorimeter…

The separation of $b$-quark initiated jets from those coming from lighter quark flavors ($b$-tagging) is a fundamental tool for the ATLAS physics program at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The most powerful $b$-tagging algorithms combine…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-11-27 Michela Paganini

Jet classification in high-energy particle physics is important for understanding fundamental interactions and probing phenomena beyond the Standard Model. Jets originate from the fragmentation and hadronization of quarks and gluons, and…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2025-08-15 Juvenal Bassa , Vidya Manian , Sudhir Malik , Arghya Chattopadhyay

Jet flavour tagging enables the identification of jets originating from heavy-flavour quarks in proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider, playing a critical role in its physics programmes. This paper presents GN2, a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-01-27 ATLAS Collaboration

With the great promise of deep learning, discoveries of new particles at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) may be imminent. Following the discovery of a new Beyond the Standard model particle in an all-hadronic channel, deep learning can also…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-30 Jakub Filipek , Shih-Chieh Hsu , John Kruper , Kirtimaan Mohan , Benjamin Nachman