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Many domains of high energy physics analysis are starting to explore machine learning techniques. Powerful methods can be used to identify and measure rare processes from previously insurmountable backgrounds. One of the most profound…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-16 Benjamin Tannenwald , Christopher Neu , Ang Li , Gracemarie Buehlmann , Anna Cuddeback , Leigh Hatfield , Ruhi Parvatam , Colby Thompson

At the LHC associated top quark and Higgs boson production with a Higgs decay to bottom quarks has long been a heavily disputed search channel. Recently, it has been found to not be viable. We show how it can be observed by tagging massive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-06 Tilman Plehn , Gavin P. Salam , Michael Spannowsky

Many models of physics beyond the Standard Model yield exotic Higgs decays. Some of these, particularly those in which the Higgs decays to light quarks or gluons, can be very difficult to discover experimentally. Here we introduce a new set…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-29 Adam Falkowski , David Krohn , Jessie Shelton , Arun Thalapillil , Lian-Tao Wang

Jet-flavour identification algorithms are of paramount importance to maximise the physics potential of the Future Circular Collider (FCC). Out of the extensive FCC-ee physics program, flavour tagging is crucial for the Higgs physics…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-10-20 Kunal Gautam

We study the boosted Higgs tagging using the Lund jet plane. The convolutional neural network is used for the Lund images data set to classify hadronically decaying Higgs from the QCD background. We consider $H\to b \bar{b}$ and $H \to gg$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-19 Charanjit K. Khosa

We describe a method to obtain point and dispersion estimates for the energies of jets arising from b quarks produced in proton-proton collisions at an energy of $\sqrt{s} =$ 13 TeV at the CERN LHC. The algorithm is trained on a large…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2020-11-09 CMS Collaboration

At the CERN LHC, the task of jet tagging, whose goal is to infer the origin of a jet given a set of final-state particles, is dominated by machine learning methods. Graph neural networks have been used to address this task by treating jets…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-11-21 Farouk Mokhtar , Raghav Kansal , Javier Duarte

Many extensions of the standard model (SM) predict the existence of axion-like particles and/or dark Higgs in the sub-GeV scale. Two new sub-GeV particles, a scalar and a pseudoscalar, produced through the Higgs boson exotic decays, are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-01 Xiaocong Ai , Shih-Chieh Hsu , Ke Li , Chih-Ting Lu

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

Recent developments in the methods of explainable AI (XAI) allow researchers to explore the inner workings of deep neural networks (DNNs), revealing crucial information about input-output relationships and realizing how data connects with…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-07-07 Ayush Khot , Mark S. Neubauer , Avik Roy

Tagging jets of strongly interacting particles initiated by energetic strange quarks is one of the few largely unexplored Standard Model object classification problems remaining in high energy collider physics. In this paper we investigate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-24 Yuichiro Nakai , David Shih , Scott Thomas

The Higgs bosons and the top quark decay into rich and diverse final states, containing both light and heavy quarks, gluons, photons as well as W and Z bosons. This article reviews the challenges involved in reconstructing Higgs and top…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-12-22 Patrizia Azzi , Loukas Gouskos , Michele Selvaggi , Frank Simon

We study mono-Higgs signatures emerging in an illustrative new physics scenario involving Standard Model Higgs boson decays to bottom quark pairs using Hybrid Deep Neural Networks. We use a Multi-Layer Perceptron to analyze the kinematic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-03 A. Hammad , S. Khalil , S. Moretti

Jet flavour tagging is crucial in experimental high-energy physics. A tagging algorithm, DeepJetTransformer, is presented, which exploits a transformer-based neural network that is substantially faster to train than state-of-the-art graph…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-02-11 Freya Blekman , Florencia Canelli , Alexandre De Moor , Kunal Gautam , Armin Ilg , Anna Macchiolo , Eduardo Ploerer

This paper describes a study of techniques for identifying Higgs bosons at high transverse momenta decaying into bottom-quark pairs, $H \rightarrow b\bar{b}$, for proton-proton collision data collected by the ATLAS detector at the Large…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-11-18 ATLAS Collaboration

Recently machine learning algorithms based on deep layered artificial neural networks (DNNs) have been applied to a wide variety of high energy physics problems such as jet tagging or event classification. We explore a simple but effective…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-11-30 Jason Lee , Inkyu Park , Sangnam Park

The LHC is well on track toward the discovery or exclusion of a light Standard Model (SM)-like Higgs boson. Such a Higgs has a very small SM width and can easily have large branching fractions to physics beyond the SM, making Higgs decays…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 Yang Bai , Patrick Draper , Jessie Shelton

Jet flavor tagging, the identification of jets originating from $c$-quarks, $b$-quarks, and other quarks (light quarks and gluons), is a crucial task in high-energy heavy-ion physics, as it enables the investigation of flavor-dependent…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-10-29 Hangil Jang , Sanghoon Lim

The Higgs boson was the last fundamental piece of the Standard Model to be experimentally confirmed. LHC is embarked in a quest to probe the possibility that this particle provides a portal to new physics. One front of this quest consists…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-25 Mario W. Barela , Rodolfo Capdevilla

In the top quark pair production in association with the Higgs boson decaying to a b quark pair t-tbar H (b-bbar), the final state has an irreducible nonresonant background from the production of a top quark pair in association with a b…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-12-30 Jieun Choi , Tae Jeong Kim , Jongwon Lim , Jiwon Park , Yeonsu Ryou , Juhee Song , Soohyun Yun