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Many theories of physics beyond the Standard Model predict particles with non-helical trajectories in a uniform magnetic field, but standard tracking algorithms assume helical paths and so are incapable of discovering non-helical tracks.…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-02-26 Levi Condren , Daniel Whiteson

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

Non-helical tracks are the smoking gun signature of charged and/or colored quirks, which are pairs of particles bound by a new, long-range confining force. We propose a method to efficiently search for these non-helical tracks at the LHC,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-12-27 Simon Knapen , Hou Keong Lou , Michele Papucci , Jack Setford

Reconstructing charged particle tracks is a fundamental task in modern collider experiments. The unprecedented particle multiplicities expected at the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) pose significant challenges for track…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-12-16 Samuel Van Stroud , Philippa Duckett , Max Hart , Nikita Pond , Sébastien Rettie , Gabriel Facini , Tim Scanlon

A novel combination of data analysis techniques is proposed for the reconstruction of all tracks of primary charged particles, as well as of daughters of displaced vertices (decays, photon conversions, nuclear interactions), created in high…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-10-16 Ferenc Siklér

Reconstructing the trajectories of charged particles in high-energy collisions requires high precision to ensure reliable event reconstruction and accurate downstream physics analyses. In particular, both precise hit selection and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-04-27 Andrea Coccaro , Francesco Armando Di Bello , Lucrezia Rambelli , Stefano Rosati , Carlo Schiavi

Track reconstruction is a vital aspect of High-Energy Physics (HEP) and plays a critical role in major experiments. In this study, we delve into unexplored avenues for particle track reconstruction and hit clustering. Firstly, we enhance…

Accurate determination of particle track reconstruction parameters will be a major challenge for the High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) experiments. The expected increase in the number of simultaneous collisions at the HL-LHC…

Tracking in high density environments plays an important role in many physics analyses at the LHC. In such environments, it is possible that two nearly collinear particles contribute to the same hits as they travel through the ATLAS pixel…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-10-23 Patrick McCormack , Milan Ganai , Ben Nachman , Maurice Garcia-Sciveres

To investigate the fundamental nature of matter and its interactions, particles are accelerated to very high energies and collided inside detectors, producing a multitude of other particles that are scattered in all directions. As charged…

One of the most important problems of data processing in high energy and nuclear physics is the event reconstruction. Its main part is the track reconstruction procedure which consists in looking for all tracks that elementary particles…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Dmitriy Baranov , Sergey Mitsyn , Pavel Goncharov , Gennady Ososkov

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…

High energy physics experiments, in particular experiments at the LHC, require the reconstruction of charged particle trajectories. Methods of reconstructing such trajectories have been known for decades, yet the applications at High…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-09-07 K. Topolnicki , T. Bold

Replicating chaotic characteristics of non-linear dynamics by machine learning (ML) has recently drawn wide attentions. In this work, we propose that a ML model, trained to predict the state one-step-ahead from several latest historic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-15 Sheng-Chen Bai , Shi-Ju Ran

Efficient and accurate particle tracking is crucial for measuring Standard Model parameters and searching for new physics. This task consists of two major computational steps: track finding, the identification of a subset of all hits that…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-09-16 Ryan Miller , Alexander Shmakov , Kyuho Oh , Jiwon Lee , Pierre Baldi , Levi Condren , Makayla Vessella , Daniel Whiteson

Many compelling beyond the Standard Model scenarios predict signals that result in unconventional charged particle trajectories. Signatures for which unusual tracks are the most conspicuous feature of the event pose significant challenges…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-02-08 K. F. Di Petrillo , J. N. Farr , C. Guo , T. R. Holmes , J. Nelson , K. Pachal

Efficient tracking algorithms are a crucial part of particle tracking detectors. While a lot of work has been done in designing a plethora of algorithms, these usually require tedious tuning for each use case. (Weakly) supervised Machine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Mykhailo Vladymyrov , Akitaka Ariga

A novel combination of established data analysis techniques for reconstructing all charged-particle tracks in high energy collisions is proposed. It uses all information available in a collision event while keeping competing choices open as…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2018-07-02 Ferenc Siklér

This report reviews methods of pattern recognition and event reconstruction used in modern high energy physics experiments. After a brief introduction into general concepts of particle detectors and statistical evaluation, different…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-11-10 Rainer Mankel

High-energy physics experiments require fast and efficient methods for reconstructing the tracks of charged particles. The commonly used algorithms are sequential, and the required CPU power increases rapidly with the number of tracks.…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-12-06 Marcin Kucharczyk , Marcin Wolter
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