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Benjamin Nachman

Staff Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Verified email at lbl.gov
Cited by 239824

Accelerating science with generative adversarial networks: an application to 3D particle showers in multilayer calorimeters

M Paganini, L de Oliveira, B Nachman - Physical review letters, 2018 - APS
Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) rely on detailed simulations of particle collisions
to build expectations of what experimental data may look like under different theoretical …

Classification without labels: Learning from mixed samples in high energy physics

EM Metodiev, B Nachman, J Thaler - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2017 - Springer
Modern machine learning techniques can be used to construct powerful models for difficult
collider physics problems. In many applications, however, these models are trained on …

Jet substructure at the Large Hadron Collider: a review of recent advances in theory and machine learning

AJ Larkoski, I Moult, B Nachman - Physics Reports, 2020 - Elsevier
Jet substructure has emerged to play a central role at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), where
it has provided numerous innovative new ways to search for new physics and to probe the …

Jet substructure at the large hadron collider

R Kogler, B Nachman, A Schmidt, L Asquith… - Reviews of Modern …, 2019 - APS
Jet substructure has emerged to play a central role at the Large Hadron Collider, where it
has provided numerous innovative ways to search for new physics and to probe the standard …

Searching for long-lived particles beyond the Standard Model at the Large Hadron Collider

…, DM Morse, S Mrenna, B Nachman… - Journal of Physics G …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Particles beyond the Standard Model (SM) can generically have lifetimes that are long
compared to SM particles at the weak scale. When produced at experiments such as the Large …

Quantum algorithm for high energy physics simulations

B Nachman, D Provasoli, WA De Jong, CW Bauer - Physical review letters, 2021 - APS
Simulating quantum field theories is a flagship application of quantum computing. However,
calculating experimentally relevant high energy scattering amplitudes entirely on a quantum …

Anomaly detection with density estimation

B Nachman, D Shih - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
We leverage recent breakthroughs in neural density estimation to propose a new unsupervised
ANOmaly detection with Density Estimation (ANODE) technique. By estimating the …

Quantum simulation for high-energy physics

…, J Liu, M Lukin, Y Meurice, C Monroe, B Nachman… - PRX quantum, 2023 - APS
It is for the first time that quantum simulation for high-energy physics (HEP) is studied in the
US decadal particle-physics community planning, and in fact until recently, this was not …

Jet-images—deep learning edition

L de Oliveira, M Kagan, L Mackey, B Nachman… - Journal of High Energy …, 2016 - Springer
Building on the notion of a particle physics detector as a camera and the collimated streams
of high energy particles, or jets, it measures as an image, we investigate the potential of …

CaloGAN: Simulating 3D high energy particle showers in multilayer electromagnetic calorimeters with generative adversarial networks

M Paganini, L De Oliveira, B Nachman - Physical Review D, 2018 - APS
The precise modeling of subatomic particle interactions and propagation through matter is
paramount for the advancement of nuclear and particle physics searches and precision …