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ResoSeg: Resonance Tagger using Transformer and Segment Model

By: Chunkai Li ยท Junhao Yin ยท Ke Li ยท Jingde Chen
14 September 2026 at 12:00
arXiv:2609.12610v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep learning has been widely applied across many areas of experimental high-energy physics, yet existing models address only event-level classification or object tagging and therefore still require reconstruction algorithms tailored to each decay channel. We present the first application of segmentation to resonance tagging at BESIII and introduce ResoSeg, a deep learning model that jointly performs particle-level segmentation and event-level classification, enabling a one-pass analysis of resonance to anything decays while precisely reconstructing the relevant resonance properties. We demonstrate the reconstruction of $\eta_c$ with $e^+e^-\to\pi^+\pi^-h_c$, $h_c\to\gamma\eta_c$, $\eta_c\to\text{anything}$. The model is trained on BESIII-$\eta_c$ dataset, which is constructed with per-track true labels obtained via a Truth-Matching Algorithm. Experimental results show that the average combined efficiency of ResoSeg is more than double that of the conventional 16-channel approach across energy points from 4.19 to 4.60\,GeV. The model generalizes to unseen energy points, adapts to other $\eta_c$ production modes through transfer learning, and remains robust against variations in the $\eta_c$ mass, width, and branching fractions, providing a general, resonance-aware model applicable beyond $\eta_c$ and BESIII. The source code is available at https://github.com/oashen/ResoSeg.

Retrieval-Augmented Question Answering over Scientific Literature for the Electron-Ion Collider

arXiv:2604.02259v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: To harness the power of Language Models in answering domain specific specialized technical questions, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is been used widely. In this work, we have developed a Q\&A application inspired by the Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), which is comprised of an in-house database indexed on the arXiv articles related to the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) experiment - one of the largest international scientific collaboration and incorporated an open-source LLaMA model for answer generation. This is an extension to it's proceeding application built on proprietary model and Cloud-hosted external knowledge-base for the EIC experiment. This locally-deployed RAG-system offers a cost-effective, resource-constraint alternative solution to build a RAG-assisted Q\&A application on answering domain-specific queries in the field of experimental nuclear physics. This set-up facilitates data-privacy, avoids sending any pre-publication scientific data and information to public domain. Future improvement will expand the knowledge base to encompass heterogeneous EIC-related publications and reports and upgrade the application pipeline orchestration to the LangGraph framework.

Contrastive Metric Learning for Point Cloud Segmentation in Highly Granular Detectors

arXiv:2603.23356v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We propose a novel clustering approach for point-cloud segmentation based on supervised contrastive metric learning (CML). Rather than predicting cluster assignments or object-centric variables, the method learns a latent representation in which points belonging to the same object are embedded nearby while unrelated points are separated. Clusters are then reconstructed using a density-based readout in the learned metric space, decoupling representation learning from cluster formation and enabling flexible inference. The approach is evaluated on simulated data from a highly granular calorimeter, where the task is to separate highly overlapping particle showers represented as sets of calorimeter hits. A direct comparison with object condensation (OC) is performed using identical graph neural network backbones and equal latent dimensionality, isolating the effect of the learning objective. The CML method produces a more stable and separable embedding geometry for both electromagnetic and hadronic particle showers, leading to improved local neighbourhood consistency, a more reliable separation of overlapping showers, and better generalization when extrapolating to unseen multiplicities and energies. This translates directly into higher reconstruction efficiency and purity, particularly in high-multiplicity regimes, as well as improved energy resolution. In mixed-particle environments, CML maintains strong performance, suggesting robust learning of the shower topology, while OC exhibits significant degradation. These results demonstrate that similarity-based representation learning combined with density-based aggregation is a promising alternative to object-centric approaches for point cloud segmentation in highly granular detectors.

AI Agents, Language, Deep Learning and the Next Revolution in Science

arXiv:2603.07940v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern science is reaching a critical inflection point. Instruments across disciplines, from particle physics and astronomy to genomics and climate modeling, now produce data of such scale, diversity, and interdependence that traditional analytical methods can no longer keep pace. This growing imbalance between data generation and data understanding signals the need for a new scientific paradigm. We propose that intelligent, human-supervised AI agents operating over deep-learning algorithms, represent the next evolution of the scientific method. Built upon large language models and multimodal learning, these agents can interpret scientific intent, design and execute analytical workflows, and ensure traceability through domain-specific languages that preserve human oversight and accountability. Particle physics, a historic incubator of computational innovation, offers the ideal testbed for this transition. At the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Dr. Sai system embodies this vision, a multi-agent reasoning framework deployed within collider research at the CEPC. This emerging approach does not replace human scientists but extends their cognitive reach, enabling discovery to scale with complexity and redefining how knowledge itself is produced in the age of intelligent machines. The significance of this paradigm transcends particle physics, offering a blueprint for all data-driven sciences facing the same complexity ceiling.

Enhancing low energy reconstruction and classification in KM3NeT/ORCA with transformers

arXiv:2511.18999v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The current KM3NeT/ORCA neutrino telescope, still under construction, has not yet reached its full potential in neutrino reconstruction capability. When training any deep learning model, no explicit information about the physics or the detector is provided, thus they remain unknown to the model. This study leverages the strengths of transformers by incorporating attention masks inspired by the physics and detector design, making the model understand both the telescope design and the neutrino physics measured on it. The study also shows the efficacy of transformers on retaining valuable information between detectors when doing fine-tuning from one configurations to another.

End-to-end event reconstruction for precision physics at future colliders

arXiv:2603.04084v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Future collider experiments require unprecedented precision in measurements of Higgs, electroweak, and flavour observables, placing stringent demands on event reconstruction. The achievable precision on Higgs couplings scales directly with the resolution on visible final state particles and their invariant masses. Current particle flow algorithms rely on detector specific clustering, limiting flexibility during detector design. Here we present an end-to-end global event reconstruction approach that maps charged particle tracks and calorimeter and muon hits directly to particle level objects. The method combines geometric algebra transformer networks with object condensation based clustering, followed by dedicated networks for particle identification and energy regression. Our approach is benchmarked on fully simulated electron positron collisions at FCC-ee using the CLD detector concept. It outperforms the state-of-the-art rule-based algorithm by 10--20\% in relative reconstruction efficiency, achieves up to two orders of magnitude reduction in fake-particle rates for charged hadrons, and improves visible energy and invariant mass resolution by 22\%. By decoupling reconstruction performance from detector-specific tuning, this framework enables rapid iteration during the detector design phase of future collider experiments.
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