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Jet quenching, the modification of jets by the quark-gluon plasma in heavy-ion collisions, provides a sensitive probe of the properties of the medium. A jet-by-jet discrimination study between proton-proton and lead-lead jets using energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-03 João A. Gonçalves

Discriminating between quark- and gluon-initiated jets has long been a central focus of jet substructure, leading to the introduction of numerous observables and calculations to high perturbative accuracy. At the same time, there have been…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-28 Samuel Bright-Thonney , Ian Moult , Benjamin Nachman , Stefan Prestel

Interest in deep learning in collider physics has been growing in recent years, specifically in applying these methods in jet classification, anomaly detection, particle identification etc. Among those, jet classification using neural…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-05 Camellia Bose , Amit Chakraborty , Shreecheta Chowdhury , Saunak Dutta

Recently methods of graph neural networks (GNNs) have been applied to solving the problems in high energy physics (HEP) and have shown its great potential for quark-gluon tagging with graph representation of jet events. In this paper, we…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-10-11 Fei Ma , Feiyi Liu , Wei Li

We present the development and validation of a new multivariate $b$ jet identification algorithm ("$b$ tagger") used at the CDF experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron. At collider experiments, $b$ taggers allow one to distinguish particle jets…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-12-07 J. Freeman , W. Ketchum , J. D. Lewis , S. Poprocki , A. Pronko , V. Rusu , P. Wittich

Strongly interacting dark sectors predict novel LHC signatures such as semi-visible jets resulting from dark showers that contain both stable and unstable dark mesons. Distinguishing such semi-visible jets from large QCD backgrounds is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-24 Elias Bernreuther , Thorben Finke , Felix Kahlhoefer , Michael Krämer , Alexander Mück

Deep learning has achieved remarkable success in jet classification tasks, yet a key challenge remains: understanding what these models learn and how their features relate to known QCD observables. Improving interpretability is essential…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-31 Partha Konar , Vishal S. Ngairangbam , Michael Spannowsky , Deepanshu Srivastava

The classification of jets as quark- versus gluon-initiated is an important yet challenging task in the analysis of data from high-energy particle collisions and in the search for physics beyond the Standard Model. The recent integration of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-17 Alexis Romero , Daniel Whiteson , Michael Fenton , Julian Collado , Pierre Baldi

We report the largest scale deep learning with High Performance Computing (HPC) to physics analysis with the CMS simulation data in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV. We build a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) model that takes low-level…

The application of deep learning techniques using convolutional neural networks to the classification of particle collisions in High Energy Physics is explored. An intuitive approach to transform physical variables, like momenta of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-24 Celia Fernández Madrazo , Ignacio Heredia Cacha , Lara Lloret Iglesias , Jesús Marco de Lucas

Image-based jet analysis is built upon the jet image representation of jets that enables a direct connection between high energy physics and the fields of computer vision and deep learning. Through this connection, a wide array of new jet…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2020-12-21 Michael Kagan

Jet flavor tagging plays an important role in precise Standard Model measurement enabling the extraction of mass dependence in jet-quark interaction and quark-gluon plasma (QGP) interactions. They also enable inferring the nature of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-24 Diego F. Vasquez Plaza , Vidya Manian

Many searches for physics beyond the Standard Model at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) rely on top tagging algorithms, which discriminate between boosted hadronic top quarks and the much more common jets initiated by light quarks and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-01-27 Leandro G. Almeida , Mihailo Backovic , Mathieu Cliche , Seung J. Lee , Maxim Perelstein

Classification of jets as originating from light-flavor or heavy-flavor quarks is an important task for inferring the nature of particles produced in high-energy collisions. The large and variable dimensionality of the data provided by the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-12-07 Daniel Guest , Julian Collado , Pierre Baldi , Shih-Chieh Hsu , Gregor Urban , Daniel Whiteson

Traffic classification associates packet streams with known application labels, which is vital for network security and network management. With the rise of NAT, port dynamics, and encrypted traffic, it is increasingly challenging to obtain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Bo Pang , Yongquan Fu , Siyuan Ren , Ye Wang , Qing Liao , Yan Jia

Jet quenching is a phenomenon in heavy-ion collisions arising from jet interactions with the quark-gluon plasma (QGP). Its study is complicated by the interplay of multiple physics processes that affect jet observables. In addition,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-01 Yilun Wu , Yi Chen , Julia Velkovska

Pattern recognition problems in high energy physics are notably different from traditional machine learning applications in computer vision. Reconstruction algorithms identify and measure the kinematic properties of particles produced in…

A novel deep neural network classifier, a ``Particle transformer'' (PaRT), is introduced for the identification of highly Lorentz-boosted resonances reconstructed as single, multipronged jets in measurements and searches performed by the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-04-14 CMS Collaboration

Machine learning-based jet classifiers are able to achieve impressive tagging performance in a variety of applications in high-energy and nuclear physics. However, it remains unclear in many cases which aspects of jets give rise to this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-20 Dimitrios Athanasakos , Andrew J. Larkoski , James Mulligan , Mateusz Ploskon , Felix Ringer

Deep learning techniques are currently being investigated for high energy physics experiments, to tackle a wide range of problems, with quark and gluon discrimination becoming a benchmark for new algorithms. One weakness is the traditional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-07 Jason Sang Hun Lee , Sang Man Lee , Yunjae Lee , Inkyu Park , Ian James Watson , Seungjin Yang