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We investigate how effectively final-state jet substructure can discriminate between QCD Compton and quark-antiquark annihilation processes from photon-jet production in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV. Using infrared- and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-03 Monalini Samal , Nihar Ranjan Sahoo

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

This study demonstrates a proof-of-concept application of a deep neural network for particle identification in simulated high transverse momentum proton-proton collisions, with a focus on evaluating model performance under controlled…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-07-15 Omar M. Khalaf , Ahmed M. Hamed

We study the effectiveness of theoretically-motivated high-level jet observables in the extreme context of jets with a large number of hard sub-jets (up to $N=8$). Previous studies indicate that high-level observables are powerful,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-08-24 Yadong Lu , Alexis Romero , Michael James Fenton , Daniel Whiteson , Pierre Baldi

Recent literature on deep neural networks for tagging of highly energetic jets resulting from top quark decays has focused on image based techniques or multivariate approaches using high-level jet substructure variables. Here, a sequential…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-08-10 Jannicke Pearkes , Wojciech Fedorko , Alison Lister , Colin Gay

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

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

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

Jets from boosted heavy particles have a typical angular scale which can be used to distinguish them from QCD jets. We introduce a machine learning strategy for jet substructure analysis using a spectral function on the angular scale. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-10-31 Sung Hak Lim , Mihoko M. Nojiri

We explore machine learning-based jet and event identification at the future Electron-Ion Collider (EIC). We study the effectiveness of machine learning-based classifiers at relatively low EIC energies, focusing on (i) identifying the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-05 Kyle Lee , James Mulligan , Mateusz Płoskoń , Felix Ringer , Feng Yuan

A key question for machine learning approaches in particle physics is how to best represent and learn from collider events. As an event is intrinsically a variable-length unordered set of particles, we build upon recent machine learning…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-17 Patrick T. Komiske , Eric M. Metodiev , Jesse Thaler

We compare the performance of a convolutional neural network (CNN) trained on jet images with dense neural networks (DNNs) trained on n-subjettiness variables to study the distinguishing power of these two separate techniques applied to top…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-25 Liam Moore , Karl Nordström , Sreedevi Varma , Malcolm Fairbairn

Jet substructure observable basis is a systematic and powerful tool for analyzing the internal energy distribution of constituent particles within a jet. In this work, we propose a novel method to insert neural networks into jet…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-17 Wei Shen , Daohan Wang , Jin Min Yang

Using smart wearable devices to monitor patients electrocardiogram (ECG) for real-time detection of arrhythmias can significantly improve healthcare outcomes. Convolutional neural network (CNN) based deep learning has been used successfully…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Xiaolin Li , Rajesh Panicker , Barry Cardiff , Deepu John

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

Imbalanced datasets are a significant challenge in real-world scenarios. They lead to models that underperform on underrepresented classes, which is a critical issue in infrastructure inspection. This paper introduces the Enhanced Feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Rasha Alshawi , Md Meftahul Ferdaus , Mahdi Abdelguerfi , Kendall Niles , Ken Pathak , Steve Sloan

Jet flavour tagging is crucial in experimental high-energy physics. A tagging algorithm, DeepJetTransformer, is presented, which exploits a transformer-based neural network that is substantially faster to train than state-of-the-art graph…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-02-11 Freya Blekman , Florencia Canelli , Alexandre De Moor , Kunal Gautam , Armin Ilg , Anna Macchiolo , Eduardo Ploerer

Autoencoders have useful applications in high energy physics in anomaly detection, particularly for jets - collimated showers of particles produced in collisions such as those at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. We explore the use of…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2021-11-29 Steven Tsan , Raghav Kansal , Anthony Aportela , Daniel Diaz , Javier Duarte , Sukanya Krishna , Farouk Mokhtar , Jean-Roch Vlimant , Maurizio Pierini

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

Machine learning (ML) algorithms, particularly attention-based transformer models, have become indispensable for analyzing the vast data generated by particle physics experiments like ATLAS and CMS at the CERN LHC. Particle Transformer…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-10 Aaron Wang , Abhijith Gandrakota , Jennifer Ngadiuba , Vivekanand Sahu , Priyansh Bhatnagar , Elham E Khoda , Javier Duarte