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Motivated by the computational limitations of simulating interactions of particles in highly-granular detectors, there exists a concerted effort to build fast and exact machine-learning-based shower simulators. This work reports progress on…

We show the first use of generative transformers for generating calorimeter showers as point clouds in a high-granularity calorimeter. Using the tokenizer and generative part of the OmniJet-${\alpha}$ model, we represent the hits in the…

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We present the results of the "Fast Calorimeter Simulation Challenge 2022" - the CaloChallenge. We study state-of-the-art generative models on four calorimeter shower datasets of increasing dimensionality, ranging from a few hundred voxels…

Accurate and efficient detector simulation is essential for modern collider experiments. To reduce the high computational cost, various fast machine learning surrogate models have been proposed. Traditional surrogate models for calorimeter…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-01-21 Thorsten Buss , Henry Day-Hall , Frank Gaede , Gregor Kasieczka , Katja Krüger

Precision measurement of hadronic final states presents complex experimental challenges. The study explores the concept of a gaseous Digital Hadronic Calorimeter (DHCAL) and discusses the potential benefits of employing Graph Neural Network…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-10 Maryna Borysova , Shikma Bressler , Eilam Gross , Nilotpal Kakati , Darina Zavazieva

CaloFlow is a new and promising approach to fast calorimeter simulation based on normalizing flows. Applying CaloFlow to the photon and charged pion Geant4 showers of Dataset 1 of the Fast Calorimeter Simulation Challenge 2022, we show how…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-05-17 Claudius Krause , Ian Pang , David Shih

Using detailed simulations of calorimeter showers as training data, we investigate the use of deep learning algorithms for the simulation and reconstruction of particles produced in high-energy physics collisions. We train neural networks…

At high-energy collider experiments, generative models can be used for a wide range of tasks, including fast detector simulations, unfolding, searches of physics beyond the Standard Model, and inference tasks. In particular, it has been…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-07 Jack Y. Araz , Vinicius Mikuni , Felix Ringer , Nobuo Sato , Fernando Torales Acosta , Richard Whitehill

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

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

In High Energy Physics simulations play a crucial role in unraveling the complexities of particle collision experiments within CERN's Large Hadron Collider. Machine learning simulation methods have garnered attention as promising…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2024-06-06 Mikołaj Kita , Jan Dubiński , Przemysław Rokita , Kamil Deja

Simulations of particle showers in calorimeters are computationally time-consuming, as they have to reproduce both energy depositions and their considerable fluctuations. A new approach to ultra-fast simulations are generative models where…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-02-05 Martin Erdmann , Jonas Glombitza , Thorben Quast

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

We present LEMURS: an extensive dataset of simulated calorimeter showers designed to support the development and benchmarking of fast simulation methods in high-energy physics, most notably providing a step towards the development of…

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The need for large-scale production of highly accurate simulated event samples for the extensive physics programme of the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider motivates the development of new simulation techniques. Building on the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-04-18 ATLAS Collaboration

In High Energy Physics, detailed and time-consuming simulations are used for particle interactions with detectors. To bypass these simulations with a generative model, the generation of large point clouds in a short time is required, while…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2024-01-03 Moritz Alfons Wilhelm Scham , Dirk Krücker , Kerstin Borras

In this study, a novel approach is demonstrated for converting calorimeter images from fast simulations to those akin to comprehensive full simulations, utilizing conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). The concept of pix2pix is…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-12-11 Ebru Simsek , Bora Isildak , Anil Dogru , Reyhan , Aydogan Burak Bayrak , Seyda Ertekin

Diffusion generative models are promising alternatives for fast surrogate models, producing high-fidelity physics simulations. However, the generation time often requires an expensive denoising process with hundreds of function evaluations,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-27 Vinicius Mikuni , Benjamin Nachman

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

In High Energy Physics, detailed calorimeter simulations and reconstructions are essential for accurate energy measurements and particle identification, but their high granularity makes them computationally expensive. Developing data-driven…

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