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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

The physics reach of the HL-LHC will be limited by how efficiently the experiments can use the available computing resources, i.e. affordable software and computing are essential. The development of novel methods for charged particle…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-09-08 Catherine Biscarat , Sylvain Caillou , Charline Rougier , Jan Stark , Jad Zahreddine

We apply machine learning techniques in an attempt to predict and classify stellar properties from noisy and sparse time series data. We preprocessed over 94 GB of Kepler light curves from MAST to classify according to ten distinct physical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-27 Trisha Hinners , Kevin Tat , Rachel Thorp

The upgrade of the track classification and selection step of the CMS tracking to a Deep Neural Network is presented. The CMS tracking follows an iterative approach: tracks are reconstructed in multiple passes starting from the ones that…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-11-10 CMS Collaboration

Accurate determination of particle track reconstruction parameters will be a major challenge for the High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) experiments. The expected increase in the number of simultaneous collisions at the HL-LHC…

We apply deep learning methods as a track finding algorithm to the PANDA Forward Tracking Stations (FTS). The problem is divided into three steps: The first step relies on an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) that is trained as a binary…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-10-17 W. Esmail , T. Stockmanns , J. Ritman

This paper presents a systematic evaluation of Neural Network (NN) for classification of real-world data. In the field of machine learning, it is often seen that a single parameter that is 'predictive accuracy' is being used for evaluating…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-12-05 Siddharth Dinesh , Tirtharaj Dash

Future upgrades to the LHC will pose considerable challenges for traditional particle track reconstruction methods. We investigate how artificial Neural Networks and Deep Learning could be used to complement existing algorithms to increase…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-10-16 Felix Dietrich

Deep-learning models such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) and Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) have been successfully used for process-mining tasks. They have achieved better performance for different predictive tasks than traditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Ishwar Venugopal , Jessica Töllich , Michael Fairbank , Ansgar Scherp

The use of machine learning algorithms is an attractive way to produce very fast detector simulations for scattering reactions that can otherwise be computationally expensive. Here we develop a factorised approach where we deal with each…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2022-07-26 D. Darulis , R. Tyson , D. G. Ireland , D. I. Glazier , B. McKinnon , P. Pauli

In this work, we present a study on ways that tracking algorithms can be improved with machine learning (ML). We base this study on the line segment tracking (LST) algorithm that we have designed to be naturally parallelized and vectorized…

The particle-flow (PF) algorithm, which infers particles based on tracks and calorimeter clusters, is of central importance to event reconstruction in the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC, and has been a focus of development in light of…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2023-04-03 Farouk Mokhtar , Joosep Pata , Javier Duarte , Eric Wulff , Maurizio Pierini , Jean-Roch Vlimant

Analysis of data from particle physics experiments traditionally sacrifices some sensitivity to new particles for the sake of practical computability, effectively ignoring some potentially striking signatures. However, recent advances in…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-10-21 Qiyu Sha , Daniel Murnane , Max Fieg , Shelley Tong , Mark Zakharyan , Yaquan Fang , Daniel Whiteson

Particle tracking is a powerful biophysical tool that requires conversion of large video files into position time series, i.e. traces of the species of interest for data analysis. Current tracking methods, based on a limited set of input…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2018-10-09 Jay M. Newby , Alison M. Schaefer , Phoebe T. Lee , M. Gregory Forest , Samuel K. Lai

Machine learning methods are being introduced at all stages of data reconstruction and analysis in various high-energy physics experiments. We present the development and application of convolutional neural networks with modified…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-04-25 Kalina Dimitrova , Venelin Kozhuharov , Peicho Petkov

We evaluate machine learning methods for event classification in the Active-Target Time Projection Chamber detector at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) at Michigan State University. An automated method to single out…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Michelle P. Kuchera , Raghuram Ramanujan , Jack Z. Taylor , Ryan R. Strauss , Daniel Bazin , Joshua Bradt , Ruiming Chen

The Most Likely Path formalism (MLP) is widely established as the most statistically precise method for proton path reconstruction in proton computed tomography (pCT). However, while this method accounts for small-angle Multiple Coulomb…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-05-26 T. Ackernley , G. Casse , M. Cristoforetti

Particle track reconstruction is traditionally computationally challenging due to the combinatorial nature of the tracking algorithms employed. Recent developments have focused on novel algorithms with graph neural networks (GNNs), which…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2025-06-05 Jay Chan , Brandon Wang , Paolo Calafiura

Single-particle tracking (SPT) has become a popular tool to study the intracellular transport of molecules in living cells. Inferring the character of their dynamics is important, because it determines the organization and functions of the…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-09-09 Joanna Janczura , Patrycja Kowalek , Hanna Loch-Olszewska , Janusz Szwabiński , Aleksander Weron

The reconstruction of charged particle trajectories is a crucial challenge of particle physics experiments as it directly impacts particle reconstruction and physics performances. To reconstruct these trajectories, different reconstruction…