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The Large Hadron Collider's high luminosity era presents major computational challenges in the analysis of collision events. Large amounts of Monte Carlo (MC) simulation will be required to constrain the statistical uncertainties of the…

Computationally expensive, high-accuracy detector simulations are a major bottleneck for many particle physics experiments such as those at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) as well as those planned for future colliders. This challenge has…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-03-17 P. Alex May , Qibin Liu , Julia Gonski , Benjamin Nachman

The research of innovative methods aimed at reducing costs and shortening the time needed for simulation, going beyond conventional approaches based on Monte Carlo methods, has been sparked by the development of collision simulations at the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Karol Rogoziński , Jan Dubiński , Przemysław Rokita , Kamil Deja

Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) rely on detailed simulations of particle collisions to build expectations of what experimental data may look like under different theory modeling assumptions. Petabytes of simulated data are…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-02-06 Michela Paganini , Luke de Oliveira , Benjamin Nachman

With the approach of the High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) era set to begin particle collisions by the end of this decade, it is evident that the computational demands of traditional collision simulation methods are becoming…

We introduce a novel machine learning method developed for the fast simulation of calorimeter detector response, adapting vector-quantized variational autoencoder (VQ-VAE). Our model adopts a two-stage generation strategy: initially…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-08-07 Qibin Liu , Chase Shimmin , Xiulong Liu , Eli Shlizerman , Shu Li , Shih-Chieh Hsu

The precise modeling of subatomic particle interactions and propagation through matter is paramount for the advancement of nuclear and particle physics searches and precision measurements. The most computationally expensive step in the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-02-07 Michela Paganini , Luke de Oliveira , Benjamin Nachman

In this paper, we explore the use of a variational autoencoder (VAE), a deep generative model, to compress and generate images of dark matter density fields from $\Lambda$CDM like cosmological simulations. The VAE learns a compact,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-25 Jazhiel Chacón-Lavanderos , Isidro Gómez-Vargas , Ricardo Menchaca-Mendez , J. Alberto Vázquez

The demands placed on computational resources by the simulation requirements of high energy physics experiments motivate the development of novel simulation tools. Machine learning based generative models offer a solution that is both fast…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-04-03 Sascha Diefenbacher , Engin Eren , Frank Gaede , Gregor Kasieczka , Anatolii Korol , Katja Krüger , Peter McKeown , Lennart Rustige

Accurate simulation of physical processes is crucial for the success of modern particle physics. However, simulating the development and interaction of particle showers with calorimeter detectors is a time consuming process and drives the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-05-28 Erik Buhmann , Sascha Diefenbacher , Engin Eren , Frank Gaede , Gregor Kasieczka , Anatolii Korol , Katja Krüger

In particle physics the simulation of particle transport through detectors requires an enormous amount of computational resources, utilizing more than 50% of the resources of the CERN Worldwide Large Hadron Collider Grid. This challenge has…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-03-26 Florian Rehm , Sofia Vallecorsa , Kerstin Borras , Dirk Krücker

Monte Carlo simulations are essential for physics analyses in high-energy physics, but their computational demands are continuously increasing. In LHCb, 90 % of computing resources are used for simulations, with the calorimeter simulation…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-11-05 Michał Mazurek

Calorimeter shower simulation is a major bottleneck in the Large Hadron Collider computational pipeline. There have been recent efforts to employ deep-generative surrogate models to overcome this challenge. However, many of best performing…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-05-17 Ian Pang , John Andrew Raine , David Shih

Simulation is one of the key components in high energy physics. Historically it relies on the Monte Carlo methods which require a tremendous amount of computation resources. These methods may have difficulties with the expected High…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2019-10-02 Viktoria Chekalina , Elena Orlova , Fedor Ratnikov , Dmitry Ulyanov , Andrey Ustyuzhanin , Egor Zakharov

Particle collisions at accelerators such as the Large Hadron Collider, recorded and analyzed by experiments such as ATLAS and CMS, enable exquisite measurements of the Standard Model and searches for new phenomena. Simulations of collision…

Precision measurements and new physics searches at the Large Hadron Collider require efficient simulations of particle propagation and interactions within the detectors. The most computationally expensive simulations involve calorimeter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-29 Jesse C. Cresswell , Brendan Leigh Ross , Gabriel Loaiza-Ganem , Humberto Reyes-Gonzalez , Marco Letizia , Anthony L. Caterini

The CALICE collaboration has constructed highly granular electromagnetic and hadronic calorimeter prototypes to evaluate technologies for the use in detector systems at a future Linear Collider. The hadron calorimeter uses small…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 Frank Simon

Simulating particle detector response is the single most expensive step in the Large Hadron Collider computational pipeline. Recently it was shown that normalizing flows can accelerate this process while achieving unprecedented levels of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-02-15 Matthew R. Buckley , Claudius Krause , Ian Pang , David Shih

Calorimeter shower simulations are often the bottleneck in simulation time for particle physics detectors. A lot of effort is currently spent on optimizing generative architectures for specific detector geometries, which generalize poorly.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-12-19 Junze Liu , Aishik Ghosh , Dylan Smith , Pierre Baldi , Daniel Whiteson

The CALICE collaboration has constructed highly granular electromagnetic and hadronic calorimeter prototypes to evaluate technologies for the use in detector systems at a future Linear Collider. The hadron calorimeter uses small…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 Katja Seidel
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