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We study single-image super-resolution algorithms for photons at collider experiments based on generative adversarial networks. We treat the energy depositions of simulated electromagnetic showers of photons and neutral-pion decays in a toy…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-11-08 Johannes Erdmann , Aaron van der Graaf , Florian Mausolf , Olaf Nackenhorst

We present an electron identification algorithm based on a neural network approach applied to the ZEUS uranium calorimeter. The study is motivated by the need to select deep inelastic, neutral current, electron proton interactions…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2010-11-01 H. Abramowicz , A. Caldwell , R. Sinkus

In particle physics, homogeneous calorimeters are used to measure the energy of particles as they interact with the detector material. Although not as precise as trackers or muon detectors, these calorimeters provide valuable insights into…

Machine Learning algorithms, such as Boosted Decisions Trees and Deep Neural Network, are widely used in High-Energy-Physics. The aim of this study is to apply Bayesian Optimization to tune the hyperparameters used in a machine learning…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2019-11-12 Oriel Kiss

A new technique is developed to identify dielectrons (e$^+$e$^-$) with Lorentz boost $\gamma_\mathrm{L}$ $\gt$ 20 that produce one single merged cluster in the electromagnetic calorimeter of the CMS detector. The identification uses two…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-04-16 CMS Collaboration

Photonic neural networks offer a promising alternative to traditional electronic systems for machine learning accelerators due to their low latency and energy efficiency. However, the challenge of implementing the backpropagation algorithm…

Crystal electromagnetic calorimeters (ECALs) are essential for high-precision measurements of electrons and photons in particle physics experiments. However, the conventional design, in which long crystal bars point radially toward the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-02-26 Weizheng Song , Yang Zhang , Shengsen Sun , Fangyi Guo , Yuanzhan Wang , Linghui Wu , Jie Guo , Shaojing Hou , Yong Liu , Quan Ji , Jinfan Chang , Yifang Wang

An innovative path for the detectors at future colliders to achieve higher performances is to use a Particle Flow approach, which requires highly granular calorimeters to image individual showers. The silicon-tungsten electromagnetic…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-05-01 Yukun Shi , Vincent Boudry

The CMS electromagnetic calorimeter (ECAL) is a high-resolution, hermetic, and homogeneous calorimeter made of 75,848 scintillating lead tungstate crystals. Following the discovery of the Higgs boson, the CMS ECAL is at the forefront of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-10-12 Andrea Massironi

We present a deep learning, computer vision algorithm constructed for the purposes of identifying and classifying charged particles in camera image sensors. We apply our algorithm to data collected by the Distributed Electronic Cosmic-ray…

The present research applies Graph Neural-Networks (GNNs) for energy measurement and particle identification tasks for a proposed second detector at the future Electron Ion Collider (EIC). In particular, an iron-scintillator sampling…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-04-10 Rowan Kelleher , Anselm Vossen

The lepton identification is essential for the physics programs at high-energy frontier, especially for the precise measurement of the Higgs boson. For this purpose, a Toolkit for Multivariate Data Analysis (TMVA) based lepton…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-10-11 Dan Yu , Manqi Ruan , Vincent Boudry , Henri Videau

Particle Identification (PID) plays a central role in associating the energy depositions in calorimeter cells with the type of primary particle in a particle flow oriented detector system. In this paper, we propose novel PID methods based…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-03-12 Siyuan Song , Jiyuan Chen , Jianbei Liu , Yong Liu , Baohua Qi , Yukun Shi , Jiaxuan Wang , Zhen Wang , Haijun Yang

Sophisticated machine learning techniques have promising potential in search for physics beyond Standard Model in Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Convolutional neural networks (CNN) can provide powerful tools for differentiating between…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-17 Biplob Bhattacherjee , Swagata Mukherjee , Rhitaja Sengupta

A neural network for software compensation was developed for the highly granular CALICE Analogue Hadronic Calorimeter (AHCAL). The neural network uses spatial and temporal event information from the AHCAL and energy information, which is…

Photo-induced processes are fundamental in nature, but accurate simulations are seriously limited by the cost of the underlying quantum chemical calculations, hampering their application for long time scales. Here we introduce a method…

Background: The masses of about 2500 nuclei have been measured experimentally, however more than 7000 isotopes are predicted to exist in the nuclear landscape from H (Z=1) to Og (Z=118) based on various theoretical calculations. Exploring…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-11-17 Zepeng Gao , Yongjia Wang , Hongliang Lü , Qingfeng Li , Caiwan Shen , Ling Liu

A learning machine, like all machines, is an open system driven far from thermal equilibrium by access to a low entropy source of free energy. We discuss the connection between machines that learn, with low probability of error, and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-01 G. J. Milburn , Sahar Basiri-Esfahani

In this review the basic interaction mechanisms of charged and neutral particles are presented. The ionization energy loss of charged particles is fundamental to most particle detectors and is therefore described in more detail. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-10-31 C. Grupen

The reconstruction efficiency of photons and neutral pions is measured using the relative yields of reconstructed $B^+ \to J/\psi K^{*+} (\to K^+ \pi^{0})$ and $B^+ \to J/\psi K^{+}$ decays. The efficiency is studied using the data set,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-05-13 Ekaterina Govorkova