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Image-based jet analysis is built upon the jet image representation of jets that enables a direct connection between high energy physics and the fields of computer vision and deep learning. Through this connection, a wide array of new jet…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2020-12-21 Michael Kagan

We provide a comprehensive analysis of the power of including top quark-polarisation information to kinematically challenging $t\bar t$ resonance searches, for which ATLAS and CMS start losing sensitivity. Following the general modeling and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-02 Christoph Englert , James Ferrando , Karl Nordström

We construct a procedure to separate boosted Higgs bosons decaying into hadrons, from the background due to strong interactions. We employ the Lund jet plane to obtain a theoretically well-motivated representation of the jets of interest…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-04 Charanjit K. Khosa , Simone Marzani

Measuring longitudinally polarised vector boson scattering in WW channel is a promising way to investigate unitarity restoration with the Higgs mechanism and to search for possible physics beyond the Standard Model. In order to perform such…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-15 M. Grossi , J. Novak , B. Kersevan , D. Rebuzzi

Recognizing hadronically decaying top-quark jets in a sample of jets, or even its total fraction in the sample, is an important step in many LHC searches for Standard Model and Beyond Standard Model physics as well. Although there exists…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-26 Ezequiel Alvarez , Manuel Szewc , Alejandro Szynkman , Santiago A. Tanco , Tatiana Tarutina

Multivariate techniques based on engineered features have found wide adoption in the identification of jets resulting from hadronic top decays at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Recent Deep Learning developments in this area include the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-11-27 Shannon Egan , Wojciech Fedorko , Alison Lister , Jannicke Pearkes , Colin Gay

This paper presents a data processing algorithm with machine learning for polarization extraction and event selection applied to photoelectron track images taken with X-ray polarimeters. The method uses a convolutional neural network (CNN)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-04 Takao Kitaguchi , Kevin Black , Teruaki Enoto , Asami Hayato , Joanne E. Hill , Wataru B. Iwakiri , Philip Kaaret , Tsunefumi Mizuno , Toru Tamagawa

Measuring the top quark mass in its semileptonic decay mode, $t ->be^+\nu$ ($b -> \mu^- + X$), through the mass distribution of the $e^+$--$\mu^-$ pair has been shown to provide a good measurement of the top quark mass with an uncertainty…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 G. A. Ladinsky

Identifying the origin of high-energy hadronic jets ('jet tagging') has been a critical benchmark problem for machine learning in particle physics. Jets are ubiquitous at colliders and are complex objects that serve as prototypical examples…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-06 Joep Geuskens , Nishank Gite , Michael Krämer , Vinicius Mikuni , Alexander Mück , Benjamin Nachman , Humberto Reyes-González

Machine learning has played a pivotal role in advancing physics, with deep learning notably contributing to solving complex classification problems such as jet tagging in the field of jet physics. In this experiment, we aim to harness the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-27 Mauricio A. Diaz , Giorgio Cerro , Jacan Chaplais , Srinandan Dasmahapatra , Stefano Moretti

The identification of hadronically decaying heavy states, such as vector bosons, the Higgs, or the top quark, produced with large transverse boosts has been and will continue to be a central focus of the jet physics program at the Large…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-27 Andrew J. Larkoski , Fabio Maltoni , Michele Selvaggi

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved remarkable success across a wide range of machine learning tasks by leveraging hierarchical feature learning through deep architectures. However, the large number of layers and millions of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-18 Biyi Fang , Truong Vo , Jean Utke , Diego Klabjan

Top quarks produced in multi-TeV processes will have large Lorentz boosts, and their decay products will be highly collimated. In semileptonic decay modes, this often leads to the merging of the b-jet and the hard lepton according to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-04-04 Keith Rehermann , Brock Tweedie

We introduce a jet tagger based on a neural network analyzing the Minkowski Functionals (MFs) of pixellated jet images. The MFs are geometric measures of binary images, and they can be regarded as a generalization of the particle…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-11 Sung Hak Lim , Mihoko M. Nojiri

New particles beyond the Standard Model might be produced with a very high boost, for instance if they result from the decay of a heavier particle. If the former decay hadronically, then their signature is a single massive fat jet which is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-17 J. A. Aguilar-Saavedra , Jack H. Collins , Rashmish K. Mishra

Supersymmetry with hadronic R-parity violation in which the lightest neutralino decays into three quarks is still weakly constrained. This work aims to further improve the current search for this scenario by the boosted decision tree method…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-07 Jun Guo , Jinmian Li , Tianjun Li , Fangzhou Xu , Wenxing Zhang

Boosting is a method for finding a highly accurate hypothesis by linearly combining many ``weak" hypotheses, each of which may be only moderately accurate. Thus, boosting is a method for learning an ensemble of classifiers. While boosting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Sai Saketh Rambhatla , Michael Jones , Rama Chellappa

The success of Large Language Models (LLMs) has established that scaling compute, through joint increases in model capacity and dataset size, is the primary driver of performance in modern machine learning. While machine learning has long…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-02-18 Matthias Vigl , Nicole Hartman , Michael Kagan , Lukas Heinrich

We study the top quark pair events production in $pp$ collisions in the $\ell$+jets channel at the LHC energy of $\sqrt{s} = 14$ TeV for Standard Model as well as new physics processes. We explore the usage of semi-boosted topologies where…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-02 J. Pácalt , J. Kvita

High mass resonances decaying into ttbar pairs appear in many extensions of the Standard Model. The top quarks from these decays have high transverse momenta and their decay products are highly collimated due to the boost into the lab…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-09-29 Gavril Giurgiu