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most citedGetting High: High Fidelity Simulation of High Granularity Calorimeters with High Speed

154 citations · 341 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

physics.ins-det2026

Point-cloud generative models for fast calorimeter simulation across particles and geometries

Thorsten Buss, Henry Day-Hall, Frank Gaede +7

Detailed Geant4 simulation of calorimeter showers is the largest single computing cost of collider experiments, and the High-Luminosity LHC will need about ten times more simulated…

hep-ex2026

Jevons' Paradox and Fast Generative Simulation for HEP: Why Realistic Benchmarking is Essential

Thorsten Buss, Henry Day-Hall, Frank Gaede +7

Simulation is a major computational expense in HEP, and calorimeter simulation in particular drives the overall energy cost of our physics analyses. Future detectors will contain m…

hep-ex2025

A First Full Physics Benchmark for Highly Granular Calorimeter Surrogates

Thorsten Buss, Henry Day-Hall, Frank Gaede +5

The physics programs of current and future collider experiments necessitate the development of surrogate simulators for calorimeter showers. While much progress has been made in th…

physics.ins-det2025

CaloClouds3: Ultra-Fast Geometry-Independent Highly-Granular Calorimeter Simulation

Thorsten Buss, Henry Day-Hall, Frank Gaede +7

We present CaloClouds3, a model for the fast simulation of photon showers in the barrel of a high granularity detector. This iteration demonstrates for the first time how a pointcl…

physics.ins-det2025★ 1 cited

CaloHadronic: a diffusion model for the generation of hadronic showers

Thorsten Buss, Frank Gaede, Gregor Kasieczka +4

Simulating showers of particles in highly-granular calorimeters is a key frontier in the application of machine learning to particle physics. Achieving high accuracy and speed with…

physics.ins-det2024★ 8 cited

CaloChallenge 2022: A Community Challenge for Fast Calorimeter Simulation

Claudius Krause, Michele Faucci Giannelli, Gregor Kasieczka +66

We present the results of the "Fast Calorimeter Simulation Challenge 2022" - the CaloChallenge. We study state-of-the-art generative models on four calorimeter shower datasets of i…

physics.ins-det2023

CaloClouds II: Ultra-Fast Geometry-Independent Highly-Granular Calorimeter Simulation

Erik Buhmann, Frank Gaede, Gregor Kasieczka +4

Fast simulation of the energy depositions in high-granular detectors is needed for future collider experiments with ever-increasing luminosities. Generative machine learning (ML) m…

physics.ins-det2023★ 60 cited

CaloClouds: Fast Geometry-Independent Highly-Granular Calorimeter Simulation

Erik Buhmann, Sascha Diefenbacher, Engin Eren +6

Simulating showers of particles in highly-granular detectors is a key frontier in the application of machine learning to particle physics. Achieving high accuracy and speed with ge…

physics.ins-det2023

New Angles on Fast Calorimeter Shower Simulation

Sascha Diefenbacher, Engin Eren, Frank Gaede +5

The demands placed on computational resources by the simulation requirements of high energy physics experiments motivate the development of novel simulation tools. Machine learning…

physics.ins-det2021★ 74 cited

Decoding Photons: Physics in the Latent Space of a BIB-AE Generative Network

Erik Buhmann, Sascha Diefenbacher, Engin Eren +4

Given the increasing data collection capabilities and limited computing resources of future collider experiments, interest in using generative neural networks for the fast simulati…

hep-ph2020★ 44 cited

DCTRGAN: Improving the Precision of Generative Models with Reweighting

Sascha Diefenbacher, Engin Eren, Gregor Kasieczka +3

Significant advances in deep learning have led to more widely used and precise neural network-based generative models such as Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). We introduce a…

physics.ins-det2020★ 154 cited

Getting High: High Fidelity Simulation of High Granularity Calorimeters with High Speed

Erik Buhmann, Sascha Diefenbacher, Engin Eren +4

Accurate simulation of physical processes is crucial for the success of modern particle physics. However, simulating the development and interaction of particle showers with calori…