학술논문

Analysis-Specific Fast Simulation at the LHC with Deep Learning
Document Type
article
Source
Computing and Software for Big Science. 5(1)
Subject
Nuclear and Plasma Physics
Information and Computing Sciences
Physical Sciences
Affordable and Clean Energy
Deep Learning
Fast Simulation
Hadron Collider Physics
High Energy Physics computing
Language
Abstract
We present a fast-simulation application based on a deep neural network, designed to create large analysis-specific datasets. Taking as an example the generation of W + jet events produced in s=  13 TeV proton-proton collisions, we train a neural network to model detector resolution effects as a transfer function acting on an analysis-specific set of relevant features, computed at generation level, i.e., in absence of detector effects. Based on this model, we propose a novel fast-simulation workflow that starts from a large amount of generator-level events to deliver large analysis-specific samples. The adoption of this approach would result in about an order-of-magnitude reduction in computing and storage requirements for the collision simulation workflow. This strategy could help the high energy physics community to face the computing challenges of the future High-Luminosity LHC.