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The Kalman Filter is a widely used approach for the linear estimation of dynamical systems and is frequently employed within nuclear and particle physics experiments for the reconstruction of charged particle trajectories, known as tracks.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-03-04 Xiaocong Ai , Heather M. Gray , Andreas Salzburger , Nicholas Styles

In high-energy physics, the increasing luminosity and detector granularity at the Large Hadron Collider are driving the need for more efficient data processing solutions. Machine Learning has emerged as a promising tool for reconstructing…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-05-01 Fotis I. Giasemis , Vladimir Lončar , Bertrand Granado , Vladimir Vava Gligorov

Parallel computing can offer an enormous advantage regarding the performance for very large applications in almost any field: scientific computing, computer vision, databases, data mining, and economics. GPUs are high performance many-core…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-11-24 Bogdan Oancea , Tudorel Andrei , Raluca Mariana Dragoescu

The expected performance of track reconstruction with LHC events using the CMS silicon tracker is presented. Track finding and fitting is accomplished with Kalman Filter techniques that achieve efficiencies above 99% on single muons with…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-03-04 Paolo Azzurri

The LHC experiments are designed to detect large amount of physics events produced with a very high rate. Considering the future upgrades, the data acquisition rate will become even higher and new computing paradigms must be adopted for…

In recent years graphical processing units (GPUs) have become a powerful tool in scientific computing. Their potential to speed up highly parallel applications brings the power of high performance computing to a wider range of users.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-26 Uldis Locans , Andreas Adelmann , Andreas Suter , Jannis Fischer , Werner Lustermann , Gunther Dissertori , Qiulin Wang

Unprecedented increase of complexity and scale of data is expected in computation necessary for the tracking detectors of the High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) experiments. While currently used Kalman filter based algorithms…

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

In LHC Run 3, ALICE will increase the data taking rate significantly to 50 kHz continuous read-out of minimum bias Pb-Pb collisions. The reconstruction strategy of the online-offline computing upgrade foresees a first synchronous online…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-10-02 David Rohr , Sergey Gorbunov , Marten Ole Schmidt , Ruben Shahoyan

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…

Point tracking in video sequences is a foundational capability for real-world computer vision applications, including robotics, autonomous systems, augmented reality, and video analysis. While recent deep learning-based trackers achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Bishoy Galoaa , Pau Closas , Sarah Ostadabbas

mkFit is an implementation of the Kalman filter-based track reconstruction algorithm that exploits both thread- and data-level parallelism. In the past few years the project transitioned from the R&D phase to deployment in the Run-3 offline…

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…

Heterogeneous chiplets have been proposed for accelerating high-performance computing tasks. Integrated inside one package, CPU and GPU chiplets can share a common interconnection network that can be implemented through the interposer.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Siamak Biglari , Ruixiao Huang , Hui Zhao , Saraju Mohanty

The reconstruction of charged particle trajectories is one of the most complex and CPU consuming parts of event processing in high energy experiments. At future hadron colliders such as the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) or…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-10-25 Xiaocong Ai

The online event reconstruction for the ALICE experiment at CERN requires processing capabilities to process central Pb-Pb collisions at a rate of more than 200 Hz, corresponding to an input data rate of about 25 GB/s. The reconstruction of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 David Rohr , Sergey Gorbunov , Artur Szostak , Matthias Kretz , Thorsten Kollegger , Timo Breitner , Torsten Alt

Track reconstruction is a vital aspect of High-Energy Physics (HEP) and plays a critical role in major experiments. In this study, we delve into unexplored avenues for particle track reconstruction and hit clustering. Firstly, we enhance…

The High Luminosity upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) will produce particle collisions with up to 200 simultaneous proton-proton interactions. These unprecedented conditions will create a combinatorial complexity for…

The High-Luminosity upgrade of the LHC will see the accelerator reach an instantaneous luminosity of $7\times 10^{34} cm^{-2}s^{-1}$ with an average pileup of $200$ proton-proton collisions. These conditions will pose an unprecedented…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-09-01 Andrea Bocci , Matti Kortelainen , Vincenzo Innocente , Felice Pantaleo , Marco Rovere

Structural parameters are normally extracted from observed galaxies by fitting analytic light profiles to the observations. Obtaining accurate fits to high-resolution images is a computationally expensive task, requiring many model…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Benjamin R. Barsdell , David G. Barnes , Christopher J. Fluke