Analysis of data from particle physics experiments traditionally sacrifices some sensitivity to new particles for the sake of practical computability, effectively ignoring some potentially striking signatures. However, recent advances in ML-based tracking allow for new inroads into previously inaccessible territory, such as reconstruction of tracks which do not follow helical trajectories. This paper presents a demonstration of the capacity of ML-based tracking to reconstruct the oscillating trajectories of quirks. The technique used is not specific to quirks, and opens the door to a program of searching for many kinds of non-standard tracks.
@article{arxiv.2410.00269,
title = {Learning to Reconstruct Quirky Tracks},
author = {Qiyu Sha and Daniel Murnane and Max Fieg and Shelley Tong and Mark Zakharyan and Yaquan Fang and Daniel Whiteson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.00269},
year = {2025}
}