Design and FPGA Implementation of WOMBAT: A Deep Neural Network Level-1 Trigger System for Jet Substructure Identification and Boosted $H\to b\bar{b}$ Tagging at the CMS Experiment

Mila Bileska

This thesis investigates the physics performance, trigger efficiency, and Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) implementation of machine learning (ML)-based algorithms for Lorentz-…