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We present the first sub-microsecond transformer implementation on an FPGA achieving competitive performance for state-of-the-art high-energy physics benchmarks. Transformers have shown exceptional performance on multiple tasks in modern…

To enhance the scientific discovery power of high-energy collider experiments, we propose and realize the concept of jet origin identification that categorizes jets into 5 quark species $(b,c,s,u,d)$, 5 anti-quarks…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-06-10 Hao Liang , Yongfeng Zhu , Yuexin Wang , Yuzhi Che , Chen Zhou , Huilin Qu , Manqi Ruan

We review the history of jets in high energy physics, and describe in more detail the developments of the past ten years, discussing new algorithms for jet finding and their main characteristics, and summarising the status of perturbative…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-09 Matteo Cacciari

The identification of jets containing $b$ hadrons is important for the physics programme of the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. Several algorithms to identify jets containing $b$ hadrons are described, ranging from those…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-04-06 ATLAS Collaboration

Jet flavor tagging is of utmost importance for unlocking the full physics potential of any future collider experiment. The performance of any jet flavor identification algorithm depends both on its underlying architecture and on the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-01-29 Dimitrios Ntounis , Loukas Gouskos , Caterina Vernieri

Measurements of jet substructure in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions indicate that interactions with the quark-gluon plasma quench the jet showering process. Modern data-driven methods have shown promise in probing these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-02 Umar Sohail Qureshi , Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli

A significant challenge in the tagging of boosted objects via machine-learning technology is the prohibitive computational cost associated with training sophisticated models. Nevertheless, the universality of QCD suggests that a large…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-13 Frédéric A. Dreyer , Radosław Grabarczyk , Pier Francesco Monni

At proposed future hadron colliders and in the coming years at the LHC, top quarks will be produced at genuinely multi-TeV energies. Top-tagging at such high energies forces us to confront several new issues in terms of detector…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-07 Zhenyu Han , Minho Son , Brock Tweedie

We develop taggers for multi-pronged jets that are simple functions of jet substructure (so-called `subjettiness') variables. These taggers can be approximately decorrelated from the jet mass in a quite simple way. Specifically, we use a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-15 J. A. Aguilar-Saavedra , B. Zaldivar

Identification of boosted, hadronically-decaying top quarks is a problem of central importance for physics goals of the Large Hadron Collider. We present a theoretical analysis of top quark tagging, establishing zeroth-order, minimal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-04 Andrew J. Larkoski

Searching for new physics in large data sets needs a balance between two competing effects---signal identification vs background distortion. In this work, we perform a systematic study of both single variable and multivariate jet tagging…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-02-25 Layne Bradshaw , Rashmish K. Mishra , Andrea Mitridate , Bryan Ostdiek

We explore the innovative use of MLP-Mixer models for real-time jet tagging and establish their feasibility on resource-constrained hardware like FPGAs. MLP-Mixers excel in processing sequences of jet constituents, achieving…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-12-30 Chang Sun , Jennifer Ngadiuba , Maurizio Pierini , Maria Spiropulu

The separation of $b$-quark initiated jets from those coming from lighter quark flavors ($b$-tagging) is a fundamental tool for the ATLAS physics program at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The most powerful $b$-tagging algorithms combine…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-11-27 Michela Paganini

The article is devoted to the searches for new particles predicted by physics beyond the Standard Model through the b-tagging algorithm. The dependence of b-tagging efficiency on the jet identification, impact parameter identification,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-17 T. V. Obikhod , I. A. Petrenko

Nowadays, there has been a growing trend in the field of high-energy physics (HEP), in both its experimental and phenomenological studies, to incorporate machine learning (ML) and its specialized branch, deep learning (DL). This review…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-27 Hamza Kheddar , Yassine Himeur , Abbes Amira , Rachik Soualah

Jet tagging is a classification problem in high-energy physics experiments that aims to identify the collimated sprays of subatomic particles, jets, from particle collisions and tag them to their emitter particle. Advances in jet tagging…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-14 Yash Semlani , Mihir Relan , Krithik Ramesh

Identifying jets originating from bottom quarks is vital in collider experiments for new physics searches. This paper proposes a novel approach based on Retentive Networks (RetNet) for b-jet tagging using low-level features of jet…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-12-12 Ayse Asu Guvenli , Bora Isildak

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

The jet charge is an old observable that has proven uniquely useful for discrimination of jets initiated by different flavors of light quarks, for example. In this Letter, we propose an approach to understanding the jet charge by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-27 Zhong-Bo Kang , Andrew J. Larkoski , Jinghong Yang

A deep-learning approach based on the transformer architecture is developed to distinguish between jets originating from quarks and gluons. The algorithm operates on jets with transverse momentum $p_{\text{T}} > 20$ and pseudorapidity…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-12-04 ATLAS Collaboration