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Interest in deep learning in collider physics has been growing in recent years, specifically in applying these methods in jet classification, anomaly detection, particle identification etc. Among those, jet classification using neural…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-05 Camellia Bose , Amit Chakraborty , Shreecheta Chowdhury , Saunak Dutta

We demonstrate that the classification of boosted, hadronically-decaying weak gauge bosons can be significantly improved over traditional cut-based and BDT-based methods using deep learning and the jet charge variable. We construct binary…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-25 Yu-Chen Janice Chen , Cheng-Wei Chiang , Giovanna Cottin , David Shih

Top taggers which identify and reconstruct boosted top quarks have been established as novel tools for a multitude of LHC analyses. We show how single top production in association with a light-flavor or bottom jet can be observed in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 Felix Kling , Tilman Plehn , Michihisa Takeuchi

The ubiquity of top-rich final states in the context of beyond the Standard Model (BSM) searches has led to their status as extensively studied signatures at the LHC. Over the past decade, numerous endeavours have been undertaken in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-23 Rameswar Sahu , Saiyad Ashanujjaman , Kirtiman Ghosh

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

High-momentum top quarks are a natural physical system in collider experiments for testing models of new physics, and jet substructure methods are key both to exploiting their largest decay mode and to assuaging resolution difficulties as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-27 Jack Y. Araz , Andy Buckley , Benjamin Fuks

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

Precision studies for top quark physics are a cornerstone of the Large Hadron Collider program. Polarization, probed through decay kinematics, provides a unique tool to scrutinize the top quark across its various production modes and to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-26 Zhongtian Dong , Dorival Gonçalves , Kyoungchul Kong , Andrew J. Larkoski , Alberto Navarro

We apply gradient boosting machine learning techniques to the problem of hadronic jet substructure recognition using classical subjettiness variables available within a common parameterized detector simulation package DELPHES. Per-jet…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-01-25 Petr Baroň , Jiří Kvita , Radek Přívara , Jan Tomeček , Rostislav Vodák

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 literature on deep neural networks for tagging of highly energetic jets resulting from top quark decays has focused on image based techniques or multivariate approaches using high-level jet substructure variables. Here, a sequential…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-08-10 Jannicke Pearkes , Wojciech Fedorko , Alison Lister , Colin Gay

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

At the LHC, a generic supersymmetric cascade can be a source of top quark. Specifically third generation squarks and gluino are the major sources of top quark which could also be boosted. In this article, we have shown that jet substructure…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-13 Priyotosh Bandyopadhyay , Biplob Bhattacherjee

Machine-learning (ML) techniques are explored to identify and classify hadronic decays of highly Lorentz-boosted W/Z/Higgs bosons and top quarks. Techniques without ML have also been evaluated and are included for comparison. The…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-06-09 CMS Collaboration

The production at the LHC of boosted top quarks (top quarks with a transverse momentum that greatly exceeds their rest mass) is a promising process to search for phenomena beyond the Standard Model. In this contribution several examples are…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2014-09-01 Elin Bergeaas Kuutmann

We present a quantum enhanced tagger to identify jets with large Lorentz boost at colliders. For the first time, a convolutional quantum graph neural network (QGNN) is designed to discriminate boosted jets arising from hadronic decays of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-19 Parichehr Kangaziankangazi , Abideh Jafari , Maurizio Pierini , Hamed Bakhshiansohi

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the first machine that provides high enough energy to produce large numbers of boosted top quarks. The decay products of these top quarks are confined to a cone in the top quark flight direction and can be…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-09-14 Sebastian Schätzel

We study the reconstruction of high p_T hadronically-decaying top quarks at the LHC. The main challenge in identifying energetic top quarks is that the decay products become increasingly collimated. This reduces the efficacy of conventional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-06-11 Leandro G. Almeida , Seung J. Lee , Gilad Perez , Ilmo Sung , Joseph Virzi

Machine learning algorithms have the capacity to discern intricate features directly from raw data. We demonstrated the performance of top taggers built upon three machine learning architectures: a BDT that uses jet-level variables…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-06 Rameswar Sahu , Kirtiman Ghosh

For highly energetic top quarks, the products of the decay t->bqq' are collimated. The 3-prong decay structure can no longer be resolved using calorimeter information alone if the particle jet separation approaches the calorimeter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-02-04 Sebastian Schaetzel , Michael Spannowsky