Colloquium: Machine learning in nuclear physics

A Boehnlein, M Diefenthaler, N Sato, M Schram… - Reviews of modern …, 2022 - APS
Advances in machine learning methods provide tools that have broad applicability in
scientific research. These techniques are being applied across the diversity of nuclear …

A guide for deploying Deep Learning in LHC searches: How to achieve optimality and account for uncertainty

B Nachman - SciPost Physics, 2020 - scipost.org
Deep learning tools can incorporate all of the available information into a search for new
particles, thus making the best use of the available data. This paper reviews how to optimally …

MLPF: efficient machine-learned particle-flow reconstruction using graph neural networks

J Pata, J Duarte, JR Vlimant, M Pierini… - The European Physical …, 2021 - Springer
In general-purpose particle detectors, the particle-flow algorithm may be used to reconstruct
a comprehensive particle-level view of the event by combining information from the …

Calorimetry with deep learning: particle simulation and reconstruction for collider physics

D Belayneh, F Carminati, A Farbin… - The European Physical …, 2020 - Springer
Using detailed simulations of calorimeter showers as training data, we investigate the use of
deep learning algorithms for the simulation and reconstruction of single isolated particles …

[HTML][HTML] Learning representations of irregular particle-detector geometry with distance-weighted graph networks

SR Qasim, J Kieseler, Y Iiyama, M Pierini - The European Physical …, 2019 - Springer
We explore the use of graph networks to deal with irregular-geometry detectors in the
context of particle reconstruction. Thanks to their representation-learning capabilities, graph …

Automating the ABCD method with machine learning

G Kasieczka, B Nachman, MD Schwartz, D Shih - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
The ABCD method is one of the most widely used data-driven background estimation
techniques in high energy physics. Cuts on two statistically independent classifiers separate …

[HTML][HTML] Reconstructing the kinematics of deep inelastic scattering with deep learning

M Arratia, D Britzger, O Long, B Nachman - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2022 - Elsevier
We introduce a method to reconstruct the kinematics of neutral-current deep inelastic
scattering (DIS) using a deep neural network (DNN). Unlike traditional methods, it exploits …

Supervised jet clustering with graph neural networks for Lorentz boosted bosons

X Ju, B Nachman - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
Jet clustering is traditionally an unsupervised learning task because there is no unique way
to associate hadronic final states with the quark and gluon degrees of freedom that …

[HTML][HTML] End-to-end multi-particle reconstruction in high occupancy imaging calorimeters with graph neural networks

SR Qasim, N Chernyavskaya, J Kieseler… - The European Physical …, 2022 - Springer
We present an end-to-end reconstruction algorithm to build particle candidates from detector
hits in next-generation granular calorimeters similar to that foreseen for the high-luminosity …

Object condensation: one-stage grid-free multi-object reconstruction in physics detectors, graph, and image data

J Kieseler - The European Physical Journal C, 2020 - Springer
High-energy physics detectors, images, and point clouds share many similarities in terms of
object detection. However, while detecting an unknown number of objects in an image is …