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The particle-flow (PF) algorithm provides a global event description by reconstructing final-state particles and is central to event reconstruction in CMS. Recently, end-to-end machine learning (ML) approaches have been proposed to directly…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-08-29 Farouk Mokhtar

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

The particle-flow (PF) algorithm constructs a global description of each particle collision by producing a comprehensive list of final-state particles, and is central to event reconstruction in the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-01-27 CMS Collaboration

We provide details on the implementation of a machine-learning based particle flow algorithm for CMS. The standard particle flow algorithm reconstructs stable particles based on calorimeter clusters and tracks to provide a global event…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2023-02-20 Joosep Pata , Javier Duarte , Farouk Mokhtar , Eric Wulff , Jieun Yoo , Jean-Roch Vlimant , Maurizio Pierini , Maria Girone

The CMS apparatus was identified, a few years before the start of the LHC operation at CERN, to feature properties well suited to particle-flow (PF) reconstruction: a highly-segmented tracker, a fine-grained electromagnetic calorimeter, a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-10-10 CMS Collaboration

A particle flow event-reconstruction algorithm has been successfully deployed in the CMS experiment and is nowadays used by most of the analyses. It aims at identifying and reconstructing individually each particle arising from the LHC…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2014-02-03 Florian Beaudette

In High Energy Physics experiments Particle Flow (PFlow) algorithms are designed to provide an optimal reconstruction of the nature and kinematic properties of the particles produced within the detector acceptance during collisions. At the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2021-02-10 Francesco Armando Di Bello , Sanmay Ganguly , Eilam Gross , Marumi Kado , Michael Pitt , Lorenzo Santi , Jonathan Shlomi

In the particle-flow approach information from all available sub-detector systems is combined to reconstruct all stable particles. The global event reconstruction has been shown to improve, in particular, the resolution of jet energy and…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Matthew Nguyen

The CMS Detector consists of a large volume silicon tracker immersed in a high four Tesla magnetic field, together with a high resolution/granularity electromagnetic calorimeter and a nearly full solid angle coverage hadronic calorimeter.…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-10-22 Joanna Weng

Machine learning (ML) plays an increasingly important role in both online and offline event reconstruction and identification at CMS experiment. A variety of ML techniques are used to improve the identification of physics objects. Dedicated…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-02-10 Uttiya Sarkar

Efficient and accurate algorithms are necessary to reconstruct particles in the highly granular detectors anticipated at the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider and the Future Circular Collider. We study scalable machine learning models…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2024-07-17 Joosep Pata , Eric Wulff , Farouk Mokhtar , David Southwick , Mengke Zhang , Maria Girone , Javier Duarte

We demonstrate transfer learning capabilities in a machine-learned algorithm trained for particle-flow reconstruction in high energy particle colliders. This paper presents a cross-detector fine-tuning study, where we initially pretrain the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-06-26 Farouk Mokhtar , Joosep Pata , Dolores Garcia , Eric Wulff , Mengke Zhang , Michael Kagan , Javier Duarte

In high energy physics, the ability to reconstruct particles based on their detector signatures is essential for downstream data analyses. A particle reconstruction algorithm based on learning hypergraphs (HGPflow) has previously been…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-05-02 Nilotpal Kakati , Etienne Dreyer , Anna Ivina , Francesco Armando Di Bello , Lukas Heinrich , Marumi Kado , Eilam Gross

Data analyses in particle physics rely on an accurate simulation of particle collisions and a detailed simulation of detector effects to extract physics knowledge from the recorded data. Event generators together with a GEANT-based…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-05-12 CMS Collaboration

Building particle tracks is the most computationally intense step of event reconstruction at the LHC. With the increased instantaneous luminosity and associated increase in pileup expected from the High-Luminosity LHC, the computational…

Particle track reconstruction is the most computationally intensive process in nuclear physics experiments. Traditional algorithms use a combinatorial approach that exhaustively tests track measurements ("hits") to identify those that form…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Polykarpos Thomadakis , Angelos Angelopoulos , Gagik Gavalian , Nikos Chrisochoides

The Phase-2 Upgrade of the CMS Level-1 Trigger (L1T) will reconstruct particles using the Particle Flow algorithm, connecting information from the tracker, muon, and calorimeter detectors, and enabling fine-grained reconstruction of high…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-10-13 Sioni Summers , Ioannis Bestintzanos , Giovanni Petrucciani

This paper describes the implementation and performance of a particle flow algorithm applied to 20.2 fb$^{-1}$ of ATLAS data from 8 TeV proton-proton collisions in Run 1 of the LHC. The algorithm removes calorimeter energy deposits due to…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-08-15 ATLAS Collaboration

In the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC), one of the most challenging computational problems is expected to be finding and fitting charged-particle tracks during event reconstruction. The methods currently in use at the LHC are…

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