Vertex identification in high energy physics experiments

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Abstract

In High Energy Physics experiments one has to sort through a high flux of events, at a rate of tens of MHz, and select the few that are of interest. One of the key factors in making this decision is the location of the vertex where the interaction, that led to the event, took place. Here we present a novel solution to the problem of finding the location of the vertex, based on two feedforward neural networks with fixed architectures, whose parameters are chosen so as to obtain a high accuracy. The system is tested on simulated data sets, and is shown to perform better than conventional algorithms.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Neural Information Processing Systems 11 - Proceedings of the 1998 Conference, NIPS 1998
PublisherNeural information processing systems foundation
Pages868-874
Number of pages7
ISBN (Print)0262112450, 9780262112451
StatePublished - 1999
Event12th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, NIPS 1998 - Denver, CO, United States
Duration: 30 Nov 19985 Dec 1998

Publication series

NameAdvances in Neural Information Processing Systems
ISSN (Print)1049-5258

Conference

Conference12th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, NIPS 1998
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityDenver, CO
Period30/11/985/12/98

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