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This study presents a novel approach to applying data assimilation techniques for particle-based simulations using the Ensemble Kalman Filter. While data assimilation methods have been effectively applied to Eulerian simulations, their…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-10 Marius Duvillard , Loïc Giraldi , Olivier Le Maître

We present results of a unitary triangle fit based on the scan method. This frequentist approach employs Gaussian uncertainties for experimental quantities, but makes no arbitrary assumptions about the distribution of theoretical errors.…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-06-12 Gerald Eigen , Gregory Dubois-Felsmann , David G. Hitlin , Frank C. Porter

We present an alternative implementation of the Kalman filter employed for track fitting within the LHCb experiment. It uses simple parametrizations for the extrapolation of particle trajectories in the field of the LHCb dipole magnet and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-05-18 Pierre Billoir , Michel De Cian , Paul André Günther , Simon Stemmle

This paper investigates an approximation scheme of the optimal nonlinear Bayesian filter based on the Gaussian mixture representation of the state probability distribution function. The resulting filter is similar to the particle filter,…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-05-30 Ibrahim Hoteit , Xiaodong Luo , Dinh-Tuan Pham

The inverse problem of determining parameters in a model by comparing some output of the model with observations is addressed. This is a description for what hat to be done to use the Gauss-Markov-Kalman filter for the Bayesian estimation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-29 Hermann G. Matthies , Alexander Litvinenko , Bojana V. Rosic , Elmar Zander

The Bootstrap Particle Filter (BPF) and the Ensemble Kalman Filter (EnKF) are two widely used methods for sequential Bayesian filtering: the BPF is asymptotically exact but can suffer from weight degeneracy, while the EnKF scales well in…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-01-28 Ilja Klebanov , Claudia Schillings , Dana Wrischnig

Recent detector concepts at future linear or circular $e^- e^+$ colliders emphasize the benefits of time-of-flight measurements for particle identification of long-lived charged hadrons. That method relies on a precise estimation of the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-09-16 Winfried A. Mitaroff

This paper describes a method to filter oscillatory transients from measurements of a time series which were at least an order of magnitude larger than the signal to be measured. Based on a Kalman filter, it has an optimality property and a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-09-29 Andreas Mueller

Using Kalman techniques, it is possible to perform optimal estimation in linear Gaussian state-space models. We address here the case where the noise probability density functions are of unknown functional form. A flexible Bayesian…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-11-13 François Caron , Manuel Davy , Arnaud Doucet , Emmanuel Duflos , Philippe Vanheeghe

The implicit particle filter seeks to mitigate particle degeneracy by identifying particles in the target distribution's high-probability regions. This study is motivated by the need to enhance computational tractability in implementing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-08 Iman Askari , Mulugeta A. Haile , Xuemin Tu , Huazhen Fang

Fluid-particle systems are highly sensitive to particle morphologies. While many attempts have been made on shape descriptors and coupling schemes, how to simulate the particle-particle and particle-fluid interactions with a balance between…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Yifeng Zhao , Pei Zhang , Liang Lei , S. A. Galindo-Torres , Stan Z. Li

We report on a global CKM matrix analysis taking into account most recent experimental and theoretical results. The statistical framework (Rfit) developed in this paper advocates formal frequentist statistics. Other approaches, such as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-05-28 A. Hocker , H. Lacker , S. Laplace , F. Le Diberder

Decay channels with attractive branching ratios, or interesting physics, are recovered by substituting missing particles (nu, pi0, etc) with combined geometric and kinematic constraints. The Sliding Vertex method is shown in this part-I,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-08-05 A. Dima , M. Dima

The Kalman Filter is a widely used approach for the linear estimation of dynamical systems and is frequently employed within nuclear and particle physics experiments for the reconstruction of charged particle trajectories, known as tracks.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-03-04 Xiaocong Ai , Heather M. Gray , Andreas Salzburger , Nicholas Styles

In this article, the importance is demonstrated of a proper choice of reference particles for decay angle definitions, when constructing partial-wave amplitude of multi-body decays using helicity formalism. This issue is often ignored in…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-07-07 Mengzhen Wang , Yi Jiang , Yinrui Liu , Wenbin Qian , Xiaorui Lyu , Liming Zhang

Parameters in climate models are usually calibrated manually, exploiting only small subsets of the available data. This precludes both optimal calibration and quantification of uncertainties. Traditional Bayesian calibration methods that…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-10-04 Oliver R. A. Dunbar , Alfredo Garbuno-Inigo , Tapio Schneider , Andrew M. Stuart

We introduce the inverse Kalman filter, which enables exact matrix-vector multiplication between a covariance matrix from a dynamic linear model and any real-valued vector with linear computational cost. We integrate the inverse Kalman…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-01-27 Xinyi Fang , Mengyang Gu

We present an efficient B-spline finite element method (FEM) for cloth simulation. While higher-order FEM has long promised higher accuracy, its adoption in cloth simulators has been limited by its larger computational costs while…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Yuqi Meng , Yihao Shi , Kemeng Huang , Zixuan Lu , Ning Guo , Taku Komura , Yin Yang , Minchen Li

Using a quadratic saddle-point approximation, we show how information about a particle-emitting source can be extracted from gaussian fits to two-particle correlation data. Although the formalism is completely general, extraction of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Scott Chapman , J. Rayford Nix , Ulrich Heinz

In this article, we present a structured Kalman filter associated with the transformation matrix for observable Kalman canonical decomposition from conventional Kalman filter (CKF) in order to generate a more accurate time scale. The…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-08 Yuyue Yan , Takahiro Kawaguchi , Yuichiro Yano , Yuko Hanado , Takayuki Ishizaki