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A novel combination of established data analysis techniques for reconstructing all charged-particle tracks in high energy collisions is proposed. It uses all information available in a collision event while keeping competing choices open as…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2018-07-02 Ferenc Siklér

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

For over a decade now, physical and energy constraints have limited clock speed improvements in commodity microprocessors. Instead, chipmakers have been pushed into producing lower-power, multi-core processors such as GPGPU, ARM and Intel…

Many physical systems can be best understood as sets of discrete data with associated relationships. Where previously these sets of data have been formulated as series or image data to match the available machine learning architectures,…

The reconstruction of the trajectories of charged particles, or track reconstruction, is a key computational challenge for particle and nuclear physics experiments. While the tuning of track reconstruction algorithms can depend strongly on…

Over the next decade, increases in instantaneous luminosity and detector granularity will amplify the amount of data that has to be analysed by high-energy physics experiments, whether in real time or offline, by an order of magnitude. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-11-26 Anthony Correia , Fotis I. Giasemis , Nabil Garroum , Vladimir Vava Gligorov , Bertrand Granado

In the future high-luminosity LHC era, high-energy physics experiments face unprecedented computational challenges for event reconstruction. Employing the LHCb vertex locator as a case study we investigate a novel approach for charged…

Optimizing charged-particle track reconstruction algorithms is crucial for efficient event reconstruction in Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments due to their significant computational demands. Existing track reconstruction algorithms…

Recent work has demonstrated that graph neural networks (GNNs) trained for charged particle tracking can match the performance of traditional algorithms while improving scalability to prepare for the High Luminosity LHC experiment. Most…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2023-10-02 Kilian Lieret , Gage DeZoort

The growing luminosity frontier at the Large Hadron Collider is challenging the reconstruction and analysis of particle collision events. Increased particle multiplicities are straining latency and storage requirements at the data…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2026-03-09 William Sutcliffe , Marta Calvi , Simone Capelli , Jonas Eschle , Julián García Pardiñas , Abhijit Mathad , Azusa Uzuki , Nicola Serra

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have demonstrated effectiveness in various graph-based tasks. However, their inefficiency in training and inference presents challenges for scaling up to real-world and large-scale graph applications. To address…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Lu Ma , Zeang Sheng , Xunkai Li , Xinyi Gao , Zhezheng Hao , Ling Yang , Wentao Zhang , Bin Cui

At the High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC), traditional track reconstruction techniques that are critical for analysis are expected to face challenges due to scaling with track density. Quantum annealing has shown promise in its…

Machine learning techniques, including Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), have been used extensively for data analysis in high energy and nuclear physics. Here we report on the use of a GNN to reconstruct decay vertices of $\Lambda$ hyperons…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-07-03 Keegan Menkce , Matthew McEneaney , Anselm Vossen

The first provably efficient algorithm for learning graph neural networks (GNNs) with one hidden layer for node information convolution is provided in this paper. Two types of GNNs are investigated, depending on whether labels are attached…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Qunwei Li , Shaofeng Zou , Wenliang Zhong

We introduce a new pattern recognition algorithm for track finding in High Energy Physics Experiments based on an extension of the Hough Transform to multiple dimensions. A remarkable property of this algorithm is that the execution time is…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-02-07 Luciano Ristori

We present the results of an R&D study for a specialized processor capable of precisely reconstructing events with hundreds of charged-particle tracks in pixel and silicon strip detectors at $40\,\rm MHz$, thus suitable for processing LHC…

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have gained traction in high-energy physics (HEP) for their potential to improve accuracy and scalability. However, their resource-intensive nature and complex operations have motivated the development of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-04-12 Daniel Murnane , Savannah Thais , Ameya Thete

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are a powerful representational tool for solving problems on graph-structured inputs. In almost all cases so far, however, they have been applied to directly recovering a final solution from raw inputs, without…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-01-16 Petar Veličković , Rex Ying , Matilde Padovano , Raia Hadsell , Charles Blundell

In general-purpose particle detectors, the particle-flow algorithm may be used to reconstruct a comprehensive particle-level view of the event by combining information from the calorimeters and the trackers, significantly improving the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2021-06-10 Joosep Pata , Javier Duarte , Jean-Roch Vlimant , Maurizio Pierini , Maria Spiropulu

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