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The longitudinal polarisation states of the $W$ and $Z$ bosons arise during electroweak (EW) symmetry breaking as the vector bosons absorb the Higgs boson's massless degrees of freedom. Consequently, these states are intrinsically linked to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-17 Rosa Colyer , Dominik Duda

Extracting longitudinal modes of weak bosons in LHC processes is essential to understand the electroweak-symmetry-breaking mechanism. To that end, we propose a general method, based on wide neural networks, to properly model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-24 Michele Grossi , Massimiliano Incudini , Mathieu Pellen , Giovanni Pelliccioli

Polarized light microscopy provides high contrast to birefringent specimen and is widely used as a diagnostic tool in pathology. However, polarization microscopy systems typically operate by analyzing images collected from two or more light…

Continuous-wave Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (CW-NMR) operated in constant-current mode has served as a foundational technique for polarization measurement in solid-state dynamically polarized targets within nuclear and high-energy physics…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-05-12 Devin Seay , Ishara P. Fernando , Dustin Keller

The anticipated experimental resolution and data cache of the High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider will enable precision investigations of polarization in multiboson processes. This includes, for the first time, vector boson scattering. To…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-23 Diogo Buarque Franzosi , Olivier Mattelaer , Richard Ruiz , Sujay Shil

Precision measurements at the LHC can provide probes of new physics, and they are complementary to direct searches. The high energy distribution of di-boson processes ($WW,WZ,Vh$) is a promising place, with the possibility of significant…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-03-13 Da Liu , Lian-Tao Wang

Optical neural networks are emerging as a powerful and versatile tool for processing optical signals directly in the optical domain with superior speed, integrability, and functionality. Their application to optical polarization enables…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-24 Alessandro Petrini , Claudio Conti , Davide Pierangeli

After the recent discovery of a 125 GeV Higgs-like particle at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), it is crucial to examine its role in unitarizing high energy W_LW_L scattering, which may reveal its possible deviation from a Standard Model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-03-03 Yanou Cui , Zhenyu Han

We introduce a deep learning approach for analyzing the scattering function of the polydisperse hard spheres system. We use a variational autoencoder-based neural network to learn the bidirectional mapping between the scattering function…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-08-18 Lijie Ding , Changwoo Do

Recently, a new boson h has been discovered at the LHC which, so far, is compatible with the properties of the SM Higgs. However, the SM is not the most general low-energy dynamics for the minimal electroweak symmetry breaking sector with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-10-16 Rafael L. Delgado , Antonio Dobado , Felipe J. Llanes-Estrada

We study polarisation of W-bosons produced in association with one jet at the LHC. In particular, we provide all necessary theoretical ingredients for the precise extraction of polarisation fractions. To that end, we present new polarised…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-09 Mathieu Pellen , Rene Poncelet , Andrei Popescu

In recent years, deep learning for modeling physical phenomena which can be described by partial differential equations (PDEs) have received significant attention. For example, for learning Hamiltonian mechanics, methods based on deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Baige Xu , Yusuke Tanaka , Takashi Matsubara , Takaharu Yaguchi

We introduce a novel technique designed to look for signatures of new physics in vector boson fusion processes at the TeV scale. This functions by measuring the polarization of the vector bosons to determine the relative longitudinal to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Tao Han , David Krohn , Lian-Tao Wang , Wenhan Zhu

The $2\rightarrow 3$ scattering of longitudinal vector bosons (VBS) has been proven to be a complementary channel to measure the Higgs self-couplings in the Standard Model (SM) and the SM effective field theory (SMEFT) at colliders. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-06 Junmou Chen , Tong Li , Chih-Ting Lu , Yongcheng Wu , Chang-Yuan Yao

Strong gravitational lensing is a promising probe of the substructure of dark matter halos. Deep learning methods have the potential to accurately identify images containing substructure, and differentiate WIMP dark matter from other well…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-09 Stephon Alexander , Sergei Gleyzer , Evan McDonough , Michael W. Toomey , Emanuele Usai

In this work, we deep-learn light charged Higgs signal in top quark decays which poses difficulties due to strong W boson contamination. We construct Deep Neural Networks (DNN) with appropriate architecture and determine signal extraction…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-06 Guleser. K. Demir , Nasuf Sonmez , Hatice Dogan

In this work, we present a new technique to measure the longitudinal and transverse polarization fractions of hadronic decays of boosted $W$ bosons. We introduce a new jet substructure observable denoted as $p_\theta$, which is a proxy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-11 Songshaptak De , Vikram Rentala , William Shepherd

It is possible that measurements of vector boson scattering (VBS) at the LHC will reveal disagreement with Standard Model predictions, but no new particles will be observed directly. The task is then to learn as much as possible about the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-06-08 Jan Kalinowski , Paweł Kozów , Stefan Pokorski , Janusz Rosiek , Michał Szleper , Sławomir Tkaczyk

We introduce a sparse scattering deep convolutional neural network, which provides a simple model to analyze properties of deep representation learning for classification. Learning a single dictionary matrix with a classifier yields a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-21 John Zarka , Louis Thiry , Tomás Angles , Stéphane Mallat

We present a computation of diboson production in the $W^\pm Z$ channel at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), incorporating leptonic decays of the gauge bosons and considering intermediate gauge bosons with definite polarization states. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-20 Ulrich Haisch , Jakob Linder , Giovanni Pelliccioli , Emanuele Re , Giulia Zanderighi