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Collider signals of dark photons are an exciting probe for new gauge forces and are characterized by events with boosted lepton jets. Existing techniques are efficient in searching for muonic lepton jets but due to substantial backgrounds…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-03-15 G. Barello , Spencer Chang , Christopher A. Newby , Bryan Ostdiek

By representing each collider event as a point cloud, we adopt the Graphic Convolutional Network (GCN) with focal loss to reconstruct the Higgs jet in it. This method provides higher Higgs tagging efficiency and better reconstruction…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-07 Jun Guo , Jinmian Li , Tianjun Li , Rao Zhang

Recent literature on deep neural networks for tagging of highly energetic jets resulting from top quark decays has focused on image based techniques or multivariate approaches using high-level jet substructure variables. Here, a sequential…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-08-10 Jannicke Pearkes , Wojciech Fedorko , Alison Lister , Colin Gay

We study several simplified dark matter (DM) models and their signatures at the LHC using neural networks. We focus on the usual monojet plus missing transverse energy channel, but to train the algorithms we organize the data in 2D…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-09 Ernesto Arganda , Anibal D. Medina , Andres D. Perez , Alejandro Szynkman

Learning on point cloud is eagerly in demand because the point cloud is a common type of geometric data and can aid robots to understand environments robustly. However, the point cloud is sparse, unstructured, and unordered, which cannot be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Kuangen Zhang , Ming Hao , Jing Wang , Clarence W. de Silva , Chenglong Fu

With the great promise of deep learning, discoveries of new particles at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) may be imminent. Following the discovery of a new Beyond the Standard model particle in an all-hadronic channel, deep learning can also…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-30 Jakub Filipek , Shih-Chieh Hsu , John Kruper , Kirtimaan Mohan , Benjamin Nachman

The Shower Deconstruction methodology is pivotal in distinguishing signal and background jets, leveraging the detailed information from perturbative parton showers. Rooted in the Neyman-Pearson lemma, this method is theoretically designed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-06 Vishal S. Ngairangbam , Michael Spannowsky

Machine learning, particularly deep neural networks, has been widely used in high-energy physics, demonstrating remarkable results in various applications. Furthermore, the extension of machine learning to quantum computers has given rise…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-23 Yi-An Chen , Kai-Feng Chen

Machine learning algorithms are heavily relied on to understand the vast amounts of data from high-energy particle collisions at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The data from such collision events can naturally be represented with…

Artificial intelligence offers the potential to automate challenging data-processing tasks in collider physics. To establish its prospects, we explore to what extent deep learning with convolutional neural networks can discriminate quark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-09-06 Patrick T. Komiske , Eric M. Metodiev , Matthew D. Schwartz

Jet clustering is traditionally an unsupervised learning task because there is no unique way to associate hadronic final states with the quark and gluon degrees of freedom that generated them. However, for uncolored particles like $W$, $Z$,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-21 Xiangyang Ju , Benjamin Nachman

Graph convolutional neural network provides good solutions for node classification and other tasks with non-Euclidean data. There are several graph convolutional models that attempt to develop deep networks but do not cause serious…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Jingyi Wang , Zhidong Deng

Machine learning based on convolutional neural networks can be used to study jet images from the LHC. Top tagging in fat jets offers a well-defined framework to establish our DeepTop approach and compare its performance to QCD-based top…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-05-17 Gregor Kasieczka , Tilman Plehn , Michael Russell , Torben Schell

We investigate the consequences of models where dark sector quarks could be produced at the LHC, which subsequently undergo a dark parton shower, generating jets of dark hadrons that ultimately decay back to Standard Model hadrons. This…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-16 Timothy Cohen , Jennifer Roloff , Christiane Scherb

In this work, we propose a novel search strategy for new physics at the LHC that utilizes calorimeter jets that (i) are composed dominantly of displaced tracks and (ii) have many different vertices within the jet cone. Such emerging jet…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-19 Pedro Schwaller , Daniel Stolarski , Andreas Weiler

Jet interactions with the color-deconfined QCD medium in relativistic heavy-ion collisions are conventionally assessed by measuring the modification of the distributions of jet observables with respect to their baselines in proton-proton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-24 Ran Li , Yi-Lun Du , Shanshan Cao

Semi-visible jets arise in strongly interacting dark sector, resulting in jets overlapping with the missing transverse momentum direction. The implementation of semi-visible jets is done using the Pythia Hidden Valley module to mimic the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-31 Deepak Kar , Wandile Nzuza , Sukanya Sinha

Leveraging network information for prediction tasks has become a common practice in many domains. Being an important part of targeted marketing, influencer detection can potentially benefit from incorporating dynamic network representation.…

We apply computer vision with deep learning -- in the form of a convolutional neural network (CNN) -- to build a highly effective boosted top tagger. Previous work (the "DeepTop" tagger of Kasieczka et al) has shown that a CNN-based top…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-14 Sebastian Macaluso , David Shih

This Letter proposes a new search for confining dark sectors at the Large Hadron Collider. As a result of the strong dynamics in the hidden sector, dark matter could manifest in proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider in form…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-07 Cesare Cazzaniga , Annapaola de Cosa