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20192026
most citedLearning representations of irregular particle-detector geometry with distance-weighted graph networks

137 citations · 211 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

physics.ins-det2026★ 1 cited

On the Codesign of Scientific Experiments and Industrial Systems

Tommaso Dorigo, Pietro Vischia, Shahzaib Abbas +84

The optimization of large experiments in fundamental science, such as detectors for subnuclear physics at particle colliders, shares with the optimization of complex systems for in…

physics.comp-ph2025

Ultra-Fast Muon Transport via Histogram Sampling on GPUs

Luis Felipe P. Cattelan, Shah Rukh Qasim, Patrick H. Owen +1

We present a GPU-accelerated method for muon transport based on histogram sampling that delivers orders of magnitude faster performance than CPU-based Geant4 simulation. Our method…

cs.DC2025

FastGraph: Optimized GPU-Enabled Algorithms for Fast Graph Building and Message Passing

Aarush Agarwal, Raymond He, Jan Kieseler +2

We introduce FastGraph, a novel GPU-optimized k-nearest neighbor algorithm specifically designed to accelerate graph construction in low-dimensional spaces (2-10 dimensions), criti…

cs.LG2025

Leveraging Reinforcement Learning, Genetic Algorithms and Transformers for background determination in particle physics

Guillermo Hijano Mendizabal, Davide Lancierini, Alex Marshall +8

Experimental studies of beauty hadron decays face significant challenges due to a wide range of backgrounds arising from the numerous possible decay channels with similar final sta…

hep-ex2025

Towards replacing detector simulation with heterogeneous GNNs in flavour physics analyses

Guillermo Hijano, Davide Lancierini, Alexander Mclean Marshall +8

Driven by the increasing volume of recorded data, the demand for simulation from experiments based at the Large Hadron Collider will rise sharply in the coming years. Addressing th…

physics.ins-det2024

Physics Instrument Design with Reinforcement Learning

Shah Rukh Qasim, Patrick Owen, Nicola Serra

We present a case for the use of Reinforcement Learning (RL) for the design of physics instrument as an alternative to gradient-based instrument-optimization methods. It's applicab…

physics.ins-det2024★ 3 cited

Using graph neural networks to reconstruct charged pion showers in the CMS High Granularity Calorimeter

M. Aamir, G. Adamov, T. Adams +568

A novel method to reconstruct the energy of hadronic showers in the CMS High Granularity Calorimeter (HGCAL) is presented. The HGCAL is a sampling calorimeter with very fine transv…

physics.ins-det2022

Performance of the CMS High Granularity Calorimeter prototype to charged pion beams of 20300 GeV/c

B. Acar, G. Adamov, C. Adloff +454

The upgrade of the CMS experiment for the high luminosity operation of the LHC comprises the replacement of the current endcap calorimeter by a high granularity sampling calorimete…

physics.ins-det2022

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

Shah Rukh Qasim, Nadezda Chernyavskaya, Jan Kieseler +4

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-lum…

physics.ins-det2022★ 8 cited

GNN-based end-to-end reconstruction in the CMS Phase 2 High-Granularity Calorimeter

Saptaparna Bhattacharya, Nadezda Chernyavskaya, Saranya Ghosh +11

We present the current stage of research progress towards a one-pass, completely Machine Learning (ML) based imaging calorimeter reconstruction. The model used is based on Graph Ne…

physics.ins-det2021★ 2 cited

Multi-particle reconstruction in the High Granularity Calorimeter using object condensation and graph neural networks

Shah Rukh Qasim, Kenneth Long, Jan Kieseler +2

The high-luminosity upgrade of the LHC will come with unprecedented physics and computing challenges. One of these challenges is the accurate reconstruction of particles in events…

physics.ins-det2020

Construction and commissioning of CMS CE prototype silicon modules

B. Acar, G. Adamov, C. Adloff +327

As part of its HL-LHC upgrade program, the CMS Collaboration is developing a High Granularity Calorimeter (CE) to replace the existing endcap calorimeters. The CE is a sampling cal…

physics.ins-det2020★ 10 cited

The DAQ system of the 12,000 Channel CMS High Granularity Calorimeter Prototype

B. Acar, G. Adamov, C. Adloff +327

The CMS experiment at the CERN LHC will be upgraded to accommodate the 5-fold increase in the instantaneous luminosity expected at the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC). Concomitant wit…

physics.ins-det2020★ 50 cited

Distance-Weighted Graph Neural Networks on FPGAs for Real-Time Particle Reconstruction in High Energy Physics

Yutaro Iiyama, Gianluca Cerminara, Abhijay Gupta +19

Graph neural networks have been shown to achieve excellent performance for several crucial tasks in particle physics, such as charged particle tracking, jet tagging, and clustering…

physics.data-an2019★ 137 cited

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

Shah Rukh Qasim, Jan Kieseler, Yutaro Iiyama +1

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, grap…