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The identification of $b$-jets, referred to as $b$-tagging, is an important part of many physics analyses in the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider and an accurate calibration of its performance is essential for high-quality…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-08-21 ATLAS Collaboration

We describe a method to obtain point and dispersion estimates for the energies of jets arising from b quarks produced in proton-proton collisions at an energy of $\sqrt{s} =$ 13 TeV at the CERN LHC. The algorithm is trained on a large…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2020-11-09 CMS Collaboration

Distinguishing quarks from gluons based on low-level detector output is one of the most challenging applications of multi-variate and machine learning techniques at the LHC. We first show the performance of our 4-vector-based LoLa tagger…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-19 Gregor Kasieczka , Nicholas Kiefer , Tilman Plehn , Jennifer M. Thompson

The standard method used for tagging b-hadrons in the DELPHI experiment at the CERN LEP Collider is discussed in detail. The main ingredient of b-tagging is the impact parameters of tracks, which relies mostly on the vertex detector.…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 The DELPHI Collaboration , J. Abdallah

Anomaly detection methods used in a recent search for new phenomena by CMS at the CERN LHC are presented. The methods use machine learning to detect anomalous jets produced in the decay of new massive particles. The effectiveness of these…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-12-24 CMS Collaboration

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

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

Jet flavour classification is of paramount importance for a broad range of applications in modern-day high-energy-physics experiments, particularly at the LHC. In this paper we propose a novel architecture for this task that exploits modern…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-12-14 Emil Bols , Jan Kieseler , Mauro Verzetti , Markus Stoye , Anna Stakia

The branching fraction for the decays of gluinos to third generation quarks is expected to be enhanced in classes of supersymmetric models where either third generation squarks are lighter than other squarks, or in mixed-higgsino dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 R. H. K. Kadala , P. G. Mercadante , J. K. Mizukoshi , Xerxes Tata

Machine learning techniques are used for treating jets as images to explore the performance of boosted top quark tagging. Tagging performances are studied in both hadronic and leptonic channels of top quark decay, employing a convolutional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-22 Soham Bhattacharya , Monoranjan Guchait , Aravind H. Vijay

Machine-learning assisted jet substructure tagging techniques have the potential to significantly improve searches for new particles and Standard Model measurements in hadronic final states. Techniques with simple analytic forms are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-11-20 Kaustuv Datta , Andrew Larkoski , Benjamin Nachman

A technique is presented to measure the efficiency with which $c$-jets are mistagged as b-jets (mistagging efficiency) using $t\bar{t}$ events, where one of the $W$ bosons decays into an electron or muon and a neutrino and the other decays…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-02-09 ATLAS Collaboration

In this article, we review recent machine learning methods used in challenging particle identification of heavy-boosted particles at high-energy colliders. Our primary focus is on attention-based Transformer networks. We report the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-19 A. Hammad , Mihoko M Nojiri

The identification of jets originating from beauty quarks in heavy-ion collisions is important to study the properties of the hot and dense matter produced in such collisions. A variety of algorithms for b-jet tagging was elaborated at the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 Gyulnara Eyyubova , Lukáš Kramárik

High $p_T$ Higgs production at hadron colliders provides a direct probe of the internal structure of the $gg \to H$ loop with the $H \to b\bar{b}$ decay offering the most statistics due to the large branching ratio. Despite the overwhelming…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-05 Joshua Lin , Marat Freytsis , Ian Moult , Benjamin Nachman

Several observables sensitive to the fragmentation of $b$-quarks into $b$-hadrons are measured using 36 fb${}^{-1}$ of $\sqrt s = 13$ TeV proton-proton collision data collected with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Jets containing $b$-hadrons…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-09-13 ATLAS Collaboration

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

The search for first top-quark pair candidate events and the related background studies using data-driven techniques are reported for about 300 inverse nb of 7 TeV proton-proton collision data delivered by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 G. Cortiana

Building on the notion of a particle physics detector as a camera and the collimated streams of high energy particles, or jets, it measures as an image, we investigate the potential of machine learning techniques based on deep learning…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-01-24 Luke de Oliveira , Michael Kagan , Lester Mackey , Benjamin Nachman , Ariel Schwartzman

Machine learning (ML) algorithms, particularly attention-based transformer models, have become indispensable for analyzing the vast data generated by particle physics experiments like ATLAS and CMS at the CERN LHC. Particle Transformer…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-10 Aaron Wang , Abhijith Gandrakota , Jennifer Ngadiuba , Vivekanand Sahu , Priyansh Bhatnagar , Elham E Khoda , Javier Duarte