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Recent work has demonstrated that graph neural networks (GNNs) trained for charged particle tracking can match the performance of traditional algorithms while improving scalability to prepare for the High Luminosity LHC experiment. Most…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2023-10-02 Kilian Lieret , Gage DeZoort

The determination of charged particle trajectories in collisions at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is an important but challenging problem, especially in the high interaction density conditions expected during the future…

The super $\tau$-charm facility (STCF) is a next-generation electron-positron collider with high luminosity proposed in China. The higher luminosity leads to increased background level, posing significant challenges for track reconstruction…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-07-15 Xiaoqian Jia , Xiaoshuai Qin , Teng Li , Xueyao Zhang , Xiaoqian Hu , Shuangbing Song , Hang Zhou , Xiaocong Ai , Jin Zhang , Xingtao Huang

Recent work has demonstrated that graph neural networks (GNNs) can match the performance of traditional algorithms for charged particle tracking while improving scalability to meet the computing challenges posed by the HL-LHC. Most GNN…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2023-12-08 Kilian Lieret , Gage DeZoort , Devdoot Chatterjee , Jian Park , Siqi Miao , Pan Li

Faced with physical and energy density limitations on clock speed, contemporary microprocessor designers have increasingly turned to on-chip parallelism for performance gains. Algorithms should accordingly be designed with ample amounts of…

Visual tracking is intrinsically a temporal problem. Discriminative Correlation Filters (DCF) have demonstrated excellent performance for high-speed generic visual object tracking. Built upon their seminal work, there has been a plethora of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-03 Di Wu , Wenbin Zou , Xia Li , Yong Zhao

Nuclear physics experiments are aimed at uncovering the fundamental building blocks of matter. The experiments involve high-energy collisions that produce complex events with many particle trajectories. Tracking charged particles resulting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Ahmed Hossam Mohammed , Kishansingh Rajput , Simon Taylor , Denis Furletov , Sergey Furletov , Malachi Schram

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) will be upgraded to further increase the instantaneous rate of particle collisions (luminosity) and become the High Luminosity LHC. This increase in…

The Kalman filter (KF) is a widely-used algorithm for tracking dynamic systems that are captured by state space (SS) models. The need to fully describe a SS model limits its applicability under complex settings, e.g., when tracking based on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-21 Itay Buchnik , Damiano Steger , Guy Revach , Ruud J. G. van Sloun , Tirza Routtenberg , Nir Shlezinger

mkFit is an implementation of the Kalman filter-based track reconstruction algorithm that exploits both thread- and data-level parallelism. In the past few years the project transitioned from the R&D phase to deployment in the Run-3 offline…

In the forthcoming years the LHC experiments are going to be upgraded to benefit from the substantial increase of the LHC instantaneous luminosity, which will lead to larger, denser events, and, consequently, greater complexity in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Matteo Argenton , Laura Cappelli , Concezio Bozzi

The expected performance of track reconstruction with LHC events using the CMS silicon tracker is presented. Track finding and fitting is accomplished with Kalman Filter techniques that achieve efficiencies above 99% on single muons with…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-03-04 Paolo Azzurri

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have gained traction in high-energy physics (HEP) for their potential to improve accuracy and scalability. However, their resource-intensive nature and complex operations have motivated the development of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-04-12 Daniel Murnane , Savannah Thais , Ameya Thete

Power density constraints are limiting the performance improvements of modern CPUs. To address this, we have seen the introduction of lower-power, multi-core processors, but the future will be even more exciting. In order to stay within the…

We introduce a novel variant of GNN for particle tracking called Hierarchical Graph Neural Network (HGNN). The architecture creates a set of higher-level representations which correspond to tracks and assigns spacepoints to these tracks,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-03-06 Ryan Liu , Paolo Calafiura , Steven Farrell , Xiangyang Ju , Daniel Thomas Murnane , Tuan Minh Pham

We propose Hypernetwork Kalman Filter (HKF) for tracking applications with multiple different dynamics. The HKF combines generalization power of Kalman filters with expressive power of neural networks. Instead of keeping a bank of Kalman…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-23 Kumar Pratik , Rana Ali Amjad , Arash Behboodi , Joseph B. Soriaga , Max Welling

The cubature Kalman filter (CKF), while theoretically rigorous for nonlinear estimation, often suffers performance degradation due to model-environment mismatches in practice. To address this limitation, we propose CKFNet-a hybrid…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-14 Jinhui Hu , Haiquan Zhao , Yi Peng

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have been widely applied to numerous fields. A recent work which combines layered structure and residual connection proposes an improved deep architecture to extend CAmouflage-REsistant GNN (CARE-GNN) to deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Yufan Zeng , Jiashan Tang

Beam dump experiments provide a distinctive opportunity to search for dark photons, which are compelling candidates for dark matter with low mass. In this study, we propose the application of Graph Neural Networks (GNN) in tracking…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-04-23 Zejia Lu , Xiang Chen , Jiahui Wu , Yulei Zhang , Liang Li

At the High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC), traditional track reconstruction techniques that are critical for analysis are expected to face challenges due to scaling with track density. Quantum annealing has shown promise in its…