English
Related papers

Related papers: Status of MERLIN

200 papers

We present a simple yet efficient algorithm for phase-space integration at hadron colliders. Individual mappings consist of a single t-channel combined with any number of s-channel decays, and are constructed using diagrammatic information.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-18 Enrico Bothmann , Taylor Childers , Walter Giele , Florian Herren , Stefan Hoeche , Joshua Isaacson , Max Knobbe , Rui Wang

Mainly due to their outstanding performance the position sensitive silicon detectors are widely used in the tracking systems of High Energy Physics experiments such as the ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb at LHC, the world's largest particle…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-11-16 Timo Peltola

MadGraph5_aMC@NLO is a software package that allows one to simulate processes of arbitrary complexity, at both the leading and the next-to-leading order perturbative accuracy, with or without matching and multi-jet merging to parton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-24 Stefano Frixione , Olivier Mattelaer , Marco Zaro , Xiaoran Zhao

We present ktrain, a low-code Python library that makes machine learning more accessible and easier to apply. As a wrapper to TensorFlow and many other libraries (e.g., transformers, scikit-learn, stellargraph), it is designed to make…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Arun S. Maiya

The Compact Linear Collider, CLIC, is a multi-TeV electron-positron collider proposed for construction at CERN. A detector model, CLICdet, that is suited for the experimental conditions at CLIC and is based on realistic performance, has…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-09-30 Emilia Leogrande , Philipp Roloff , Ulrike Schnoor , Matthias Weber

Image processing and machine learning applications benefit tremendously from hardware acceleration, but existing compilers target either FPGAs, which sacrifice power and performance for flexible hardware, or ASICs, which rapidly become…

Machine Learning (ML) algorithms have been demonstrated to be capable of predicting impact parameter in heavy-ion collisions from transport model simulation events with perfect detector response. We extend the scope of ML application to…

High-energy colliders, exemplified by the CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC), constitute genuine quantum machines. In alignment with Richard Feynman's foundational vision for quantum computing, collider physics emerge therefore as a prime…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-13 Germán Rodrigo

We present Matrix Distributed Processing, a C++ library for fast development of efficient parallel algorithms. MDP is based on MPI and consists of a collection of C++ classes and functions such as lattice, site and field. Once an algorithm…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Massimo Di Pierro

This paper introduces a library for cross-simulator comparison of reinforcement learning models in traffic signal control tasks. This library is developed to implement recent state-of-the-art reinforcement learning models with extensible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Hao Mei , Xiaoliang Lei , Longchao Da , Bin Shi , Hua Wei

We introduce a C++ header-only library that is used to solve the axion equation of motion, MiMeS. MiMeS makes no assumptions regarding the cosmology and the mass of the axion, which allows the user to consider various cosmological scenarios…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-14 Dimitrios Karamitros

MLJ (Machine Learing in Julia) is an open source software package providing a common interface for interacting with machine learning models written in Julia and other languages. It provides tools and meta-algorithms for selecting, tuning,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Anthony D. Blaom , Franz Kiraly , Thibaut Lienart , Yiannis Simillides , Diego Arenas , Sebastian J. Vollmer

While discrete-event simulators are essential tools for architecture research, design, and development, their practicality is limited by an extremely long time-to-solution for realistic applications under investigation. This work describes…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Lingda Li , Santosh Pandey , Thomas Flynn , Hang Liu , Noel Wheeler , Adolfy Hoisie

Many software development tasks, such as implementing features and fixing bugs, begin with developers posing questions about a codebase. However, answering questions about codebases that span millions of lines of code across thousands of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Amirmohammad Nazari , Sadra Sabouri , Wang Bill Zhu , Robin Jia , Souti Chattopadhyay , Mukund Raghothaman

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN has been instrumental in recent advances in experimental high energy physics by colliding beams of protons and heavier nuclei at unprecedented energies. The present heavy-ion programme is based mainly…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 E. Waagaard , R. Bruce , R. Alemany Fernandez , H. Bartosik , J. M. Jowett , N. Triantafyllou

Fortran is the lingua franca of HPC code development and as such it is crucial that we as a community have open source Fortran compilers capable of generating high performance executables. Flang is LLVM's Fortran compiler and leverages MLIR…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Nick Brown

Hybrid silicon pixel detectors are currently used in the innermost tracking system of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment. Radiation tolerance up to fluences expected for a few years of running of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-10-07 Gemma Tinti

Collimation systems are essential in particle accelerators to safely and efficiently manage unavoidable beam losses during operation. These systems rely on collimators, which are specially designed movable jaws or absorbers positioned close…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2026-03-05 Nuria Fuster Martínez

In this demo paper, we introduce the DARPA D3M program for automatic machine learning (ML) and JPL's MARVIN tool that provides an environment to locate, annotate, and execute machine learning primitives for use in ML pipelines. MARVIN is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Chris A. Mattmann , Sujen Shah , Brian Wilson

We present the software library libCreme which we have previously used to successfully calculate convex-roof entanglement measures of mixed quantum states appearing in realistic physical systems. Evaluating the amount of entanglement in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Beat Röthlisberger , Jörg Lehmann , Daniel Loss