Toward the end-to-end optimization of particle physics instruments with differentiable programming

T Dorigo, A Giammanco, P Vischia, M Aehle, M Bawaj… - Reviews in Physics, 2023 - Elsevier
The full optimization of the design and operation of instruments whose functioning relies on
the interaction of radiation with matter is a super-human task, due to the large dimensionality …

Anomaly detection with density estimation

B Nachman, D Shih - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
We leverage recent breakthroughs in neural density estimation to propose a new
unsupervised ANOmaly detection with Density Estimation (ANODE) technique. By …

Score-based generative models for calorimeter shower simulation

V Mikuni, B Nachman - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
Score-based generative models are a new class of generative algorithms that have been
shown to produce realistic images even in high dimensional spaces, currently surpassing …

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 …

Event generation with normalizing flows

C Gao, S Höche, J Isaacson, C Krause, H Schulz - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
We present a novel integrator based on normalizing flows which can be used to improve the
unweighting efficiency of Monte Carlo event generators for collider physics simulations. In …

i-flow: High-dimensional Integration and Sampling with Normalizing Flows

C Gao, J Isaacson, C Krause - Machine Learning: Science and …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
In many fields of science, high-dimensional integration is required. Numerical methods have
been developed to evaluate these complex integrals. We introduce the code i-flow, a Python …

[HTML][HTML] The SHiP experiment at the proposed CERN SPS beam dump facility

C Ahdida, A Akmete, R Albanese, J Alt… - The European Physical …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract The Search for Hidden Particles (SHiP) Collaboration has proposed a general-
purpose experimental facility operating in beam-dump mode at the CERN SPS accelerator …

Fast and accurate simulations of calorimeter showers with normalizing flows

C Krause, D Shih - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
We introduce caloflow, a fast detector simulation framework based on normalizing flows. For
the first time, we demonstrate that normalizing flows can reproduce many-channel …

Phase space sampling and inference from weighted events with autoregressive flows

B Stienen, R Verheyen - SciPost Physics, 2021 - scipost.org
We explore the use of autoregressive flows, a type of generative model with tractable
likelihood, as a means of efficient generation of physical particle collider events. The usual …

New directions for surrogate models and differentiable programming for High Energy Physics detector simulation

A Adelmann, W Hopkins, E Kourlitis, M Kagan… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
The computational cost for high energy physics detector simulation in future experimental
facilities is going to exceed the current available resources. To overcome this challenge …