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Publications (15)

physics.ins-det2020

Track Seeding and Labelling with Embedded-space Graph Neural Networks

Nicholas Choma, Daniel Murnane, Xiangyang Ju +16

To address the unprecedented scale of HL-LHC data, the Exa.TrkX project is investigating a variety of machine learning approaches to particle track reconstruction. The most promisi…

physics.ins-det2022

Reconstruction of Large Radius Tracks with the Exa.TrkX pipeline

Chun-Yi Wang, Xiangyang Ju, Shih-Chieh Hsu +22

Particle tracking is a challenging pattern recognition task at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and the High Luminosity-LHC. Conventional algorithms, such as those based on the Kalm…

physics.ins-det2020

Graph Neural Networks for Particle Reconstruction in High Energy Physics detectors

Xiangyang Ju, Steven Farrell, Paolo Calafiura +20

Pattern recognition problems in high energy physics are notably different from traditional machine learning applications in computer vision. Reconstruction algorithms identify and…

physics.data-an2025

Graph Neural Network for Neutrino Physics Event Reconstruction

V Hewes, Adam Aurisano, Giuseppe Cerati +6

Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) detector technology offers a wealth of high-resolution information on particle interactions, and leveraging that information to its fu…

physics.ins-det2022

Accelerating the Inference of the Exa.TrkX Pipeline

Alina Lazar, Xiangyang Ju, Daniel Murnane +21

Recently, graph neural networks (GNNs) have been successfully used for a variety of particle reconstruction problems in high energy physics, including particle tracking. The Exa.Tr…

hep-ph2007

Cosmology and Dark Matter at the LHC

Richard Arnowitt, Adam Aurisano, Bhaskar Dutta +5

We examine the question of whether neutralinos produced at the LHC can be shown to be the particles making up the astronomically observed dark matter. If the WIMP alllowed region l…

hep-ph2022

Tau Neutrinos in the Next Decade: from GeV to EeV

Roshan Mammen Abraham, Jaime Alvarez-Muñiz, Carlos A. Argüelles +63

Tau neutrinos are the least studied particle in the Standard Model. This whitepaper discusses the current and expected upcoming status of tau neutrino physics with attention to the…

eess.IV2022

Automated Segmentation of Computed Tomography Images with Submanifold Sparse Convolutional Networks

Saúl Alonso-Monsalve, Leigh H. Whitehead, Adam Aurisano +1

Quantitative cancer image analysis relies on the accurate delineation of tumours, a very specialised and time-consuming task. For this reason, methods for automated segmentation of…

physics.data-an2022

End-to-end analysis using image classification

Adam Aurisano, Leigh H. Whitehead

End-to-end analyses of data from high-energy physics experiments using machine and deep learning techniques have emerged in recent years. These analyses use deep learning algorithm…

hep-ex2017

Sterile neutrino search in the NOvA Far Detector

Sijith Edayath, Adam Aurisano, Alexandre Sousa +3

The majority of neutrino oscillation experiments have obtained evidence for neutrino oscillations that are compatible with the three-flavor model. Explaining anomalous results from…

cs.CV2026

Submanifold Sparse Convolutional Networks for Automated 3D Segmentation of Kidneys and Kidney Tumours in Computed Tomography

Saúl Alonso-Monsalve, Leigh H. Whitehead, Adam Aurisano +1

Accurate delineation of kidney tumours in Computed Tomography (CT) is essential for downstream quantitative analysis and precision oncology, but manual segmentation is a specialise…

physics.comp-ph2019

Machine Learning in High Energy Physics Community White Paper

Kim Albertsson, Piero Altoe, Dustin Anderson +125

Machine learning has been applied to several problems in particle physics research, beginning with applications to high-level physics analysis in the 1990s and 2000s, followed by a…

physics.data-an2021

Performance of a Geometric Deep Learning Pipeline for HL-LHC Particle Tracking

Xiangyang Ju, Daniel Murnane, Paolo Calafiura +21

The Exa.TrkX project has applied geometric learning concepts such as metric learning and graph neural networks to HEP particle tracking. Exa.TrkX's tracking pipeline groups detecto…

hep-ex2017

NOvA Short-Baseline Tau Neutrino Appearance Search

Rijeesh Keloth, Adam Aurisano, Alexander Sousa +3

Standard three-flavor neutrino oscillations have well explained by a wide range of neutrino experiments. However, the anomalous results, such as electron-antineutrino excess seen b…

hep-ex2021

Graph Neural Network for Object Reconstruction in Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers

V Hewes, Adam Aurisano, Giuseppe Cerati +14

This paper presents a graph neural network (GNN) technique for low-level reconstruction of neutrino interactions in a Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC). GNNs are still…