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In high energy physics, the ability to reconstruct particles based on their detector signatures is essential for downstream data analyses. A particle reconstruction algorithm based on learning hypergraphs (HGPflow) has previously been…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-05-02 Nilotpal Kakati , Etienne Dreyer , Anna Ivina , Francesco Armando Di Bello , Lukas Heinrich , Marumi Kado , Eilam Gross

Under extreme operating conditions, characterized by high particle multiplicity and heavily overlapping shower energy deposits, classical particle flow algorithms encounter pronounced limitations in resolution, efficiency, and accuracy. To…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-05-13 Yu Wang , Yangguang Zhang , Shengxiang Lin , Xingyi Zhang , Han Zhang

This paper describes the implementation and performance of a particle flow algorithm applied to 20.2 fb$^{-1}$ of ATLAS data from 8 TeV proton-proton collisions in Run 1 of the LHC. The algorithm removes calorimeter energy deposits due to…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-08-15 ATLAS Collaboration

Pattern recognition problems in high energy physics are notably different from traditional machine learning applications in computer vision. Reconstruction algorithms identify and measure the kinematic properties of particles produced in…

The particle-flow (PF) algorithm constructs a global description of each particle collision by producing a comprehensive list of final-state particles, and is central to event reconstruction in the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-01-27 CMS Collaboration

The CMS apparatus was identified, a few years before the start of the LHC operation at CERN, to feature properties well suited to particle-flow (PF) reconstruction: a highly-segmented tracker, a fine-grained electromagnetic calorimeter, a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-10-10 CMS Collaboration

This talk reviews the development of imaging calorimeters for the purpose of applying Particle Flow Algorithms (PFAs) to the measurement of hadronic jets at a future lepton collider. After a short introduction, the current status of PFA…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-10-11 Jose Repond

A Particle Flow Algorithm (PFA) with the minimized dependence on the detector geometry is presented. Current PFA implementation includes procedures of the track reconstruction, calorimeter clustering, and individual particle reconstruction…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Raspereza

The granularity of calorimeter has been revolutionary boosted for future collider experiments. The calorimeter has been pushed to a stage that the sub structure of showers especially hadronic showers can be recorded to a high precision. New…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-12-11 Manqi Ruan

The particle-flow (PF) algorithm is used in general-purpose particle detectors to reconstruct a comprehensive particle-level view of the collision by combining information from different subdetectors. A graph neural network (GNN) model,…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2021-11-29 Farouk Mokhtar , Raghav Kansal , Daniel Diaz , Javier Duarte , Joosep Pata , Maurizio Pierini , Jean-Roch Vlimant

There has been considerable recent activity applying deep convolutional neural nets (CNNs) to data from particle physics experiments. Current approaches on ATLAS/CMS have largely focussed on a subset of the calorimeter, and for identifying…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-11-30 Wahid Bhimji , Steven Andrew Farrell , Thorsten Kurth , Michela Paganini , Prabhat , Evan Racah

The accurate and precise extraction of information from a modern particle physics detector, such as an electromagnetic calorimeter, may be complicated and challenging. In order to overcome the difficulties we propose processing the detector…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2022-02-04 Elihu Sela , Shan Huang , David Horn

Numerical simulations of plasma flows are crucial for advancing our understanding of microscopic processes that drive the global plasma dynamics in fusion devices, space, and astrophysical systems. Identifying and classifying particle…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-10-13 Stefano Markidis , Ivy Peng , Artur Podobas , Itthinat Jongsuebchoke , Gabriel Bengtsson , Pawel Herman

We present a framework to use recently introduced Capsule Networks for solving the problem of Optical Flow, one of the fundamental computer vision tasks. Most of the existing state of the art deep architectures either uses a correlation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Rahul Chand , Rajat Arora , K Ram Prabhakar , R Venkatesh Babu

In the recent years, high energy physics discoveries have been driven by the increasing of luminosity and/or detector granularity. This evolution gives access to bigger statistics and data samples, but can make it hard to process results…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-02-07 Matthieu Melennec , Shamik Ghosh , Frédéric Magniette

We demonstrate transfer learning capabilities in a machine-learned algorithm trained for particle-flow reconstruction in high energy particle colliders. This paper presents a cross-detector fine-tuning study, where we initially pretrain the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-06-26 Farouk Mokhtar , Joosep Pata , Dolores Garcia , Eric Wulff , Mengke Zhang , Michael Kagan , Javier Duarte

The thesis arises in the context of deep learning applications to particle physics. The dissertation follows two main parallel streams: the development of hardware-accelerated tools for event simulation in high-energy collider physics, and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-08 Marco Rossi

The particle-flow (PF) algorithm provides a global event description by reconstructing final-state particles and is central to event reconstruction in CMS. Recently, end-to-end machine learning (ML) approaches have been proposed to directly…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-08-29 Farouk Mokhtar

The particle detectors at the future linear colliders, like ILD and SiD, use Particle Flow Algorithms (PFA)s to reach higher jet energy resolutions than the classical pure calorimetry. During the past few years, the University of Iowa group…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-03-02 Garabed Halladjian , Usha Mallik , Remi Zaidan

State estimation in non-linear models is performed by tracking the posterior distribution recursively. A plethora of algorithms have been proposed for this task. Among them, the Gaussian particle filter uses a weighted set of particles to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-05 Karthik Comandur , Yunpeng Li , Santosh Nannuru