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In high energy physics (HEP) experiments, the reconstruction of charged particle trajectories is one of the most fundamental yet computationally expensive parts of event processing. At future hadron colliders such as the High-Luminosity…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-07-03 Xiaocong Ai

Computing centres, including those used to process High-Energy Physics data and simulations, are increasingly providing significant fractions of their computing resources through hardware architectures other than x86 CPUs, with GPUs being a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-11-23 Xiaocong Ai , Georgiana Mania , Heather M. Gray , Michael Kuhn , Nicholas Styles

In high-energy particle collisions, charged track finding is a complex yet crucial endeavour. We propose a quantum algorithm, specifically quantum template matching, to enhance the accuracy and efficiency of track finding. Abstracting the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-03 Christopher Brown , Michael Spannowsky , Alexander Tapper , Simon Williams , Ioannis Xiotidis

Pattern recognition algorithms are commonly employed to simplify the challenging and necessary step of track reconstruction in sub-atomic physics experiments. Aiding in the discrimination of relevant interactions, pattern recognition seeks…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-14 Gregory Quiroz , Lauren Ice , Andrea Delgado , Travis S. Humble

Particle track reconstruction is the most computationally intensive process in nuclear physics experiments. Traditional algorithms use a combinatorial approach that exhaustively tests track measurements ("hits") to identify those that form…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Polykarpos Thomadakis , Angelos Angelopoulos , Gagik Gavalian , Nikos Chrisochoides

The determination of charged particle trajectories (tracking) in collisions at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is one of the most important aspects for event reconstruction at hadron colliders. This is especially true in the high…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-12-06 H. Abidi , A. Boveia , V. Cavaliere , D. Furletov , A. Gekow , C. W. Kalderon , S. Yoo

mkFit is an implementation of the Kalman filter-based track reconstruction algorithm that exploits both thread- and data-level parallelism. In the past few years the project transitioned from the R&D phase to deployment in the Run-3 offline…

A novel combination of data analysis techniques is proposed for the reconstruction of all tracks of primary charged particles, as well as of daughters of displaced vertices (decays, photon conversions, nuclear interactions), created in high…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-10-16 Ferenc Siklér

The high instantaneous luminosities expected following the upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to the High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) pose major experimental challenges for the CMS experiment. A central component to allow efficient…

High-Energy Physics experiments are facing a multi-fold data increase with every new iteration. This is certainly the case for the upcoming High-Luminosity LHC upgrade. Such increased data processing requirements forces revisions to almost…

As the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) continues its upward progression in energy and luminosity towards the planned High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) in 2025, the challenges of the experiments in processing increasingly complex events will also…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-10-05 Paul Lujan , Valerie Halyo

Tracking is one of the most time consuming aspects of event reconstruction at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and its high-luminosity upgrade (HL-LHC). Innovative detector technologies extend tracking to four-dimensions by including timing…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-11-12 Patrick J. Fox , Shangqing Huang , Joshua Isaacson , Xiangyang Ju , Benjamin Nachman

High energy physics experiments, in particular experiments at the LHC, require the reconstruction of charged particle trajectories. Methods of reconstructing such trajectories have been known for decades, yet the applications at High…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-09-07 K. Topolnicki , T. Bold

Searches for long-lived particles (LLPs) are among the most promising avenues for discovering physics beyond the Standard Model at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). However, displaced signatures are notoriously difficult to identify due to…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-12-14 ATLAS Collaboration

Tracking in high density environments plays an important role in many physics analyses at the LHC. In such environments, it is possible that two nearly collinear particles contribute to the same hits as they travel through the ATLAS pixel…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-10-23 Patrick McCormack , Milan Ganai , Ben Nachman , Maurice Garcia-Sciveres

The hit combinatorial problem is a main challenge for track reconstruction and triggering at high rate experiments. At hadron colliders the dominant fraction of hits is due to low momentum tracks for which multiple scattering (MS) effects…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-22 Andre Schöning

This paper presents a novel method for the reconstruction of interaction vertices in particle collision data. The algorithm is an agglomerative clustering technique designed for high-luminosity environments in current and future…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-05-02 Federico Meloni

One of the most important problems of data processing in high energy and nuclear physics is the event reconstruction. Its main part is the track reconstruction procedure which consists in looking for all tracks that elementary particles…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Dmitriy Baranov , Sergey Mitsyn , Pavel Goncharov , Gennady Ososkov

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

The trigger systems of the LHC detectors play a crucial role in determining the physics capabilities of the experiments. A reduction of several orders of magnitude of the event rate is needed to reach values compatible with the detector…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-09-10 Valentina Gori