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Artificial intelligence offers the potential to automate challenging data-processing tasks in collider physics. To establish its prospects, we explore to what extent deep learning with convolutional neural networks can discriminate quark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-09-06 Patrick T. Komiske , Eric M. Metodiev , Matthew D. Schwartz

Artificial neural networks (ANNs) have been successfully applied to solve a variety of classification and function approximation problems. Although ANNs can generally predict better than decision trees for pattern classification problems,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2010-09-28 S. M. Kamruzzaman , Md. Monirul Islam

An algorithm for the identification of jets that originate from the hadronisation of strange quarks is presented, which complements existing algorithms for the identification of jets that originate from $b$-quarks and $c$-quarks. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-01-23 Johannes Erdmann

Real-time jet tagging is critical for identifying short-lived particle decays in the high-throughput detectors of the Large Hadron Collider, where real-time trigger systems responsible for deciding which collision events to store impose…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-05-22 Aaron Wang , Zihan Zhao , Alan Xia , Chang Sun , Abhijith Gandrakota , Jennifer Ngadiuba , Richard Cavanaugh , Javier Duarte

Discriminating between quark- and gluon-initiated jets has long been a central focus of jet substructure, leading to the introduction of numerous observables and calculations to high perturbative accuracy. At the same time, there have been…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-28 Samuel Bright-Thonney , Ian Moult , Benjamin Nachman , Stefan Prestel

Based on the jet image approach, which treats the energy deposition in each calorimeter cell as the pixel intensity, the Convolutional neural network (CNN) method has been found to achieve a sizable improvement in jet tagging compared to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-05 Jinmian Li , Tianjun Li , Fang-Zhou Xu

We apply both cut-based and machine learning techniques using the same inputs to the challenge of hadronic jet substructure recognition, utilizing classical subjettiness variables within the Delphes parameterized detector simulation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-21 Jiří Kvita , Petr Baroň , Monika Machalová , Radek Přívara , Rostislav Vodák , Jan Tomeček

Studying heavy-flavor jets in pp collision is important since they can test pQCD calculations and be used as a reference for heavy-ion collisions. Jets in this analysis are reconstructed from charged particles using the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-28 Hadi Hassan , Neelkamal Mallick , D. J. Kim

In high-energy physics, particle jet tagging plays a pivotal role in distinguishing quark from gluon jets using data from collider experiments. While graph-based deep learning methods have advanced this task beyond traditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Md Abrar Jahin , Md. Akmol Masud , M. F. Mridha , Nilanjan Dey , Zeyar Aung

We present a new algorithm that identifies reconstructed jets originating from hadronic decays of tau leptons against those from quarks or gluons. No tau lepton reconstruction algorithm is used. Instead, the algorithm represents jets as…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-07-19 Andris Huang , Xiangyang Ju , Jacob Lyons , Daniel Murnane , Mariel Pettee , Landon Reed

A significant challenge in the tagging of boosted objects via machine-learning technology is the prohibitive computational cost associated with training sophisticated models. Nevertheless, the universality of QCD suggests that a large…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-13 Frédéric A. Dreyer , Radosław Grabarczyk , Pier Francesco Monni

Identifying and reconstructing hadronic $\tau$ decays ($\tau_{\textrm{h}}$) is an important task at current and future high-energy physics experiments, as $\tau_{\textrm{h}}$ represent an important tool to analyze the production of Higgs…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-08-02 Torben Lange , Saswati Nandan , Joosep Pata , Laurits Tani , Christian Veelken

We propose a method to identify jets consisting of all the visible remnants of boosted top particles when these decay semileptonically to electrons. Within these jets, the electron shower overlaps with the shower initiated by the $b$ quark,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-02-03 Suman Chatterjee , Rohini Godbole , Tuhin S. Roy

The success of Large Language Models (LLMs) has established that scaling compute, through joint increases in model capacity and dataset size, is the primary driver of performance in modern machine learning. While machine learning has long…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-02-18 Matthias Vigl , Nicole Hartman , Michael Kagan , Lukas Heinrich

We investigate whether state-of-the-art classification features commonly used to distinguish electrons from jet backgrounds in collider experiments are overlooking valuable information. A deep convolutional neural network analysis of…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2021-07-07 Julian Collado , Jessica N. Howard , Taylor Faucett , Tony Tong , Pierre Baldi , Daniel Whiteson

Currently, newly developed artificial intelligence techniques, in particular convolutional neural networks, are being investigated for use in data-processing and classification of particle physics collider data. One such challenging task is…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-12-07 Jason Sang Hun Lee , Inkyu Park , Ian James Watson , Seungjin Yang

Face detection is one of the most relevant applications of image processing and biometric systems. Artificial neural networks (ANN) have been used in the field of image processing and pattern recognition. There is lack of literature surveys…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-04-07 Omaima N. A. AL-Allaf

Autoencoders are widely used in machine learning applications, in particular for anomaly detection. Hence, they have been introduced in high energy physics as a promising tool for model-independent new physics searches. We scrutinize the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-15 Thorben Finke , Michael Krämer , Alessandro Morandini , Alexander Mück , Ivan Oleksiyuk

The possible application of boosted neural network to particle classification in high energy physics is discussed. A two-dimensional toy model, where the boundary between signal and background is irregular but not overlapping, is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Yu Meiling , Xu Mingmei , Liu Lianshou

The classification of jets induced by quarks or gluons is important for New Physics searches at high-energy colliders. However, available taggers usually rely on modelling the data through Monte Carlo simulations, which could veil…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-01 Ezequiel Alvarez , Michael Spannowsky , Manuel Szewc