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We apply techniques from Bayesian generative statistical modeling to uncover hidden features in jet substructure observables that discriminate between different a priori unknown underlying short distance physical processes in multi-jet…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-24 Barry M. Dillon , Darius A. Faroughy , Jernej F. Kamenik

The separation of quark and gluon initiated jets can be an important way to improve the sensitivity in searches for new physics or in measurements of Higgs boson properties. We present a simplified version of the shower deconstruction…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-02-28 Danilo Ferreira de Lima , Petar Petrov , Davison Soper , Michael Spannowsky

Jet flavor tagging, the identification of jets originating from $c$-quarks, $b$-quarks, and other quarks (light quarks and gluons), is a crucial task in high-energy heavy-ion physics, as it enables the investigation of flavor-dependent…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-10-29 Hangil Jang , Sanghoon Lim

Graph neural networks such as ParticleNet and transformer based networks on point clouds such as ParticleTransformer achieve state-of-the-art performance on jet tagging benchmarks at the Large Hadron Collider, yet the physical reasoning…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-29 Pahal D. Patel , Sanmay Ganguly

Energy correlators have recently been proposed as a class of jet substructure observables that directly link experimental measurements of the asymptotic energy flux with the field theoretic description of the underlying microscopic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-18 Carlota Andres , Fabio Dominguez , Jack Holguin , Cyrille Marquet , Ian Moult

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

Understanding jets initiated by quarks and gluons is of fundamental importance in collider physics. Efficient and robust techniques for quark versus gluon jet discrimination have consequences for new physics searches, precision $\alpha_s$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-17 Andrew J. Larkoski , Eric M. Metodiev

Machine learning (ML) is a promising approach for performing challenging quantum-information tasks such as device characterization, calibration and control. ML models can train directly on the data produced by a quantum device while…

Heavy quarks created in heavy-ion collisions serve as an excellent probe of the produced quark-gluon plasma (QGP). The radiation pattern of jets formed from heavy quarks as they traverse the QGP exhibits a particularly interesting structure…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-04 Carlota Andres , Fabio Dominguez , Jack Holguin , Cyrille Marquet , Ian Moult

Since the machine learning techniques are improving rapidly, it has been shown that the image recognition techniques in deep neural networks can be used to detect jet substructure. And it turns out that deep neural networks can match or…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-02 Taoli Cheng

The CMS experiment makes use of a large variety of algorithms to identify the origin of particle jets measured in the detector. Through the study of jet substructure properties, jets originating from quarks, gluons, W/Z/Higgs bosons, top…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-12-14 Dennis Schwarz

Jet identification is one of the fields in high energy physics that machine learning has begun to make an impact. More often than not, convolutional neural networks are used to classify jet images with the benefit that essentially no…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-16 Hui Luo , Ming-xing Luo , Kai Wang , Tao Xu , Guohuai Zhu

Machine learning (ML) techniques have recently enabled enormous gains in sensitivity to new phenomena across the sciences. In particle physics, much of this progress has relied on excellent simulations of a wide range of physical processes.…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2025-10-20 Malte Algren , Tobias Golling , Francesco Armando Di Bello , Christopher Pollard

A new method to identify the gluon jet in 3-jet ``{\bf Y}'' decays of $Z^0$ is presented. The method is based on differences in particle multiplicity between quark jets and gluon jets, and is more effective than tagging by leptonic decay.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-22 Jon Pumplin

Jet modification in heavy-ion collisions provides microscopic access to the properties of the quark-gluon plasma. However, conventional approaches based on traditional global observables, such as \(R_{AA}\), capture limited information…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-24 Leonardo Lima da Silva , Marcelo Gameiro Munhoz

We review selected results from a recent in-depth study of jet shapes and jet cross sections in ultra-relativistic reactions with heavy nuclei at the LHC arXiv:0810.2807 [hep-ph]. We demonstrate that at the highest collider energies these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-07-22 Ivan Vitev , Ben-Wei Zhang , Simon Wicks

Jet flavour tagging enables the identification of jets originating from heavy-flavour quarks in proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider, playing a critical role in its physics programmes. This paper presents GN2, a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-01-27 ATLAS Collaboration

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

Currently, newly developed artificial intelligence techniques, in particular convolutional neural networks, are being investigated for use in data-processing and classification of particle physics collider data. One such challenging task is…

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

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