The paper presents candela, a differentiable SIREN neural field that learns the photon Green's function for the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. It predicts photon yield and full arrival-time distribution for point-like energy deposits, enabling complete event simulation by superposing responses from multiple deposits. Trained on Monte‑Carlo data, candela produces events 50–100× faster than existing methods while maintaining median yields within 2% of MC expectations and timing distributions at the MC statistical floor across six photon‑count decades.
By Felix J. Yu, Berthy T. Feng, Nicholas Kamp, Carlos A. Arg\"{u}elles
arXiv:2610. 20870v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present a generative surrogate for charged-current \(\nu_\mu\)-nucleus scattering that can be calibrated to measured differential cross sections without event-level experimental samples.
By Jose Luis Bonilla, Krzysztof M. Graczyk, Rwik Dharmapal Banerjee, Beata E. Kowal, Hemant Prasad, Jan T. Sobczyk
arXiv:2606. 16035v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern particles physics experiments have demonstrated an increasing need for fast, high-fidelity detector simulation as detector components have improved and subsequent computational requirements approach the limits of available resources.
By Cole Granger, James Giroux, Richard Tyson, Maurizio Ungaro, Cristiano Fanelli
arXiv:2511. 22246v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Unsupervised learning has been widely applied to various tasks in particle physics.
By Xing-Jian Lv, De-Xing Miao, Zi-Jun Xu, Jian-Chun Wang
The paper presents deep‑learning trigger algorithms for the Hyper‑Kamiokande water Cherenkov detector, targeting low‑energy neutrino events below 7 MeV. It compares a supervised neural‑network classifier with two anomaly‑detection methods—an autoencoder and a Manifold Projection‑Diffusion Recovery model—showing the supervised model achieves a 76.7 % signal efficiency for 3 MeV electrons, far surpassing the 26.4 % efficiency of a traditional hit‑count trigger. GPU‑based runtime tests indicate per‑window inference latencies well below one millisecond.
By Katharina Lachner, Sa\'ul Alonso-Monsalve, Benjamin Richards, Davide Sgalaberna
arXiv:2606. 02788v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reconstructing the direction of incoming neutrinos in the IceCube Neutrino Observatory is an important problem in astrophysics.
By Floriano Tori, Brecht Verbeken, Vincent Ginis
The paper introduces a particle‑level generative model that uses residual‑quantized full‑event data to enable fast, ML‑based surrogate simulation for collider events. It demonstrates conditional generation from detector‑stable particles, explores scaling across dataset and model sizes, and shows that token‑level loss predicts downstream physical fidelity. The work offers an empirical framework for scalable collider full‑event generation using residual‑quantized representations.
By Dan Godi, Dmitrii Kobylianskii, Eilam Gross
VyPER is a new geometric learning framework that reconstructs particle collider events by representing them as hypergraphs with a physics-inspired topology. It tackles two key tasks: assigning measured jets and leptons to their parent particles through supervised hyperedge classification, and predicting neutrino kinematics using a diffusion model, all optimized jointly with a shared loss function. The authors evaluate VyPER on various proton‑proton collision processes, showing improved performance over existing analytical and machine‑learning methods and enabling more precise measurements in Higgs, electroweak, and top‑quark studies.
By Lining Mao, Yvonne Peters, Ethan Simpson, Zihan Zhang
The paper investigates anomaly detection in high-energy physics by learning low-dimensional representations of collision events. Using supervised and self-supervised neural embeddings on a large simulated dataset, the authors find that supervised objectives generally outperform self-supervised ones and improve signal efficiency compared to traditional kinematic-feature autoencoders. They also propose a local diagnostic pipeline that models the Standard Model latent space with a Gaussian Mixture Model, profiles components via high-level observables, and ranks these observables by their local discriminating power, thereby linking anomaly scores to specific kinematic features.
By Donatella Genovese, Philip Ploner, Simone Scardapane, Stefano Giagu, Thea Klaeboe Aarrestad
arXiv:2606. 20437v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Charged-particle tracking -- reconstructing trajectories from sparse detector measurements -- is a fundamental high-energy-physics inference problem and a canonical example of learning under extreme combinatorial ambiguity.
By Siqi Miao, Shitij Govil, Jack P. Rodgers, Mia Liu, Javier Duarte, Shih-Chieh Hsu, Yuan-Tang Chou, Pan Li
arXiv:2608. 14278v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present Pairton, an iterative framework for reconstructing short-lived particles in high-energy collision events.
By Andreas Hermansen, Chris Scheulen, Tobias Golling
The paper investigates whether two particle physics foundation models, OmniLearned and ParticleViT, pretrained on high‑energy proton–proton and electron–proton collisions can transfer knowledge to a low‑energy neutrino experiment. Using MINERvA neutrino–nucleus scattering data, the authors evaluate the models on energy regression and charged‑current pion classification tasks, finding that the pretrained models outperform similarly sized models trained from scratch, with OmniLearned excelling in regression and ParticleViT in classification. When the same transformer architecture is initialized from unrelated text pretraining (BERT), the performance advantage is minimal for classification and absent for regression, indicating that particle‑level foundation models capture inductive biases that generalize across energy scales, detector technologies, and physics processes.
By Gregor Krzmanc, Vinicius Mikuni, Benjamin Nachman, Callum Wilkinson