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Point cloud-based diffusion models for the Electron-Ion Collider

Araz, J. Y. ORCID: 0000-0001-8721-8042, Mikuni, V., Ringer, F. , Sato, N., Torales Acosta, F. & Whitehill, R. (2025). Point cloud-based diffusion models for the Electron-Ion Collider. Physics Letters B, 868, article number 139694. doi: 10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139694

Abstract

At high-energy collider experiments, generative models can be used for a wide range of tasks, including fast detector simulations, unfolding, searches of physics beyond the Standard Model, and inference tasks. In particular, it has been demonstrated that score-based diffusion models can generate high-fidelity and accurate samples of jets or collider events. This work expands on previous generative models in three distinct ways. First, our model is trained to generate entire collider events, including all particle species with complete kinematic information. We quantify how well the model learns event-wide constraints such as the conservation of momentum and discrete quantum numbers. We focus on the events at the future Electron-Ion Collider, but we expect that our results can be extended to proton-proton and heavy-ion collisions. Second, previous generative models often relied on image-based techniques. The sparsity of the data can negatively affect the fidelity and sampling time of the model. We address these issues using point clouds and a novel architecture combining edge creation with transformer modules called Point Edge Transformers. Third, we adapt the foundation model OmniLearn, to generate full collider events. This approach may indicate a transition toward adapting and fine-tuning foundation models for downstream tasks instead of training new models from scratch.

Publication Type: Article
Additional Information: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons CC-BY license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics
Q Science > QC Physics
Departments: School of Science & Technology
School of Science & Technology > Department of Engineering
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