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Simulation is crucial for all aspects of collider data analysis, but the available computing budget in the High Luminosity LHC era will be severely constrained. Generative machine learning models may act as surrogates to replace…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-10-04 Oz Amram , Kevin Pedro

We introduce CaloFlow, a fast detector simulation framework based on normalizing flows. For the first time, we demonstrate that normalizing flows can reproduce many-channel calorimeter showers with extremely high fidelity, providing a fresh…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-07-12 Claudius Krause , David Shih

Simulating showers of particles in highly-granular detectors is a key frontier in the application of machine learning to particle physics. Achieving high accuracy and speed with generative machine learning models would enable them to…

Denoising diffusion models have gained prominence in various generative tasks, prompting their exploration for the generation of calorimeter responses. Given the computational challenges posed by detector simulations in high-energy physics…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-10-16 Dmitrii Kobylianskii , Nathalie Soybelman , Etienne Dreyer , Eilam Gross

In future high-energy physics experiments, the electromagnetic calorimeter (ECAL) will operate in exceptionally high-luminosity. An ECAL featuring layered readout in the longitudinal direction and precise time-stamped information offers a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-05-08 J. Fei , A. Yuan , K. Wei , L. Sun , J. Wang

Prototypes of electromagnetic and hadronic imaging calorimeters developed and operated by the CALICE collaboration provide an unprecedented wealth of highly granular data of hadronic showers for a variety of active sensor elements and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-09-21 Héctor García Cabrera

Air shower simulation programs are essential tools for the analysis of data from cosmic ray experiments and for planning the layout of new detectors. They are used to estimate the energy and mass of the primary particle. Unfortunately the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Knapp , D. Heck , S. J. Sciutto , M. T. Dova , M. Risse

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 the quest to build generative surrogate models as computationally efficient alternatives to rule-based simulations, the quality of the generated samples remains a crucial frontier. So far, normalizing flows have been among the models…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-09-05 Thorsten Buss , Frank Gaede , Gregor Kasieczka , Claudius Krause , David Shih

Modern particle physics experiments face an increasing demand for high-fidelity detector simulation as luminosities rise and computational requirements approach the limits of available resources. Deep generative models have emerged as…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-04-01 Carlos Cardona-Giraldo , Cristiano Fanelli , James Giroux , Cole Granger , Benjamin Nachman , Gerald Sabin

Motivated by the high computational costs of classical simulations, machine-learned generative models can be extremely useful in particle physics and elsewhere. They become especially attractive when surrogate models can efficiently learn…

Score-based generative models are a new class of generative algorithms that have been shown to produce realistic images even in high dimensional spaces, currently surpassing other state-of-the-art models for different benchmark categories…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-07 Vinicius Mikuni , Benjamin Nachman

Calorimeter simulation is the most computationally expensive part of Monte Carlo generation of samples necessary for analysis of experimental data at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The High-Luminosity upgrade of the LHC would require an…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-10-17 Abhishek Abhishek , Eric Drechsler , Wojciech Fedorko , Bernd Stelzer

The precise reconstruction of properties of photons and electrons in modern high energy physics detectors, such as the CMS or Atlas experiments, plays a crucial role in numerous physics results. Conventional geometrical algorithms are used…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-11-30 Polina Simkina , Fabrice Couderc , Julie Malclès , Mehmet Özgür Sahin

The physics programs of current and future collider experiments necessitate the development of surrogate simulators for calorimeter showers. While much progress has been made in the development of generative models for this task, they have…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-11-24 Thorsten Buss , Henry Day-Hall , Frank Gaede , Gregor Kasieczka , Katja Krüger , Anatolii Korol , Thomas Madlener , Peter McKeown

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

The simulation of calorimeter showers presents a significant computational challenge, impacting the efficiency and accuracy of particle physics experiments. While generative ML models have been effective in enhancing and accelerating the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-05-28 Simon Schnake , Dirk Krücker , Kerstin Borras

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 high-luminosity upgrade of the LHC will come with unprecedented physics and computing challenges. One of these challenges is the accurate reconstruction of particles in events with up to 200 simultaneous proton-proton interactions. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-06-04 Shah Rukh Qasim , Kenneth Long , Jan Kieseler , Maurizio Pierini , Raheel Nawaz