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Deep Neural Networks for Physics Analysis on low-level whole-detector data at the LHC

9 Nov 2017arXiv:1711.03573archive 2025-07-28

Wahid Bhimji, Steven Andrew Farrell, Thorsten Kurth, Michela Paganini, Prabhat, Evan Racah

There has been considerable recent activity applying deep convolutional neural nets (CNNs) to data from particle physics experiments. Current approaches on ATLAS/CMS have largely focussed on a subset of the calorimeter, and for identifying objects or particular particle types. We explore approaches that use the entire calorimeter, combined with track information, for directly conducting physics analyses: i.e. classifying events as known-physics background or new-physics signals. We use an existing RPV-Supersymmetry analysis as a case study and explore CNNs on multi-channel, high-resolution sparse images: applied on GPU and multi-node CPU architectures (including Knights Landing (KNL) Xeon Phi nodes) on the Cori supercomputer at NERSC.

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