https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-024-13576-x
Letter
CaloQVAE: Simulating high-energy particle-calorimeter interactions using hybrid quantum-classical generative models
1
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, N2L 2Y5, Waterloo, ON, Canada
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Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo, N2L 3G1, Waterloo, ON, Canada
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, V6T 1Z1, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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TRIUMF, V6T 2A3, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University, V5A 1S6, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Received:
10
May
2024
Accepted:
5
November
2024
Published online:
2
December
2024
The Large Hadron Collider’s high luminosity era presents major computational challenges in the analysis of collision events. Large amounts of Monte Carlo (MC) simulation will be required to constrain the statistical uncertainties of the simulated datasets below these of the experimental data. Modelling of high-energy particles propagating through the calorimeter section of the detector is the most computationally intensive MC simulation task. We introduce a technique combining recent advancements in generative models and quantum annealing for fast and efficient simulation of high-energy particle-calorimeter interactions.
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