TY  - JOUR
IS  - 5
PB  - AMER PHYSICAL SOC
A1  - Duckett, Philippa
A1  - Facini, Gabriel
A1  - Jastrzebski, Marcin
A1  - Malik, Sarah
A1  - Scanlon, Tim
A1  - Rettie, Sebastien
Y1  - 2024/03/08/
ID  - discovery10192471
SN  - 2470-0010
N1  - Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of
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EP  - 11
JF  - Physical Review D
AV  - public
N2  - Reconstructing the trajectories of charged particles from the collection of hits they leave in the detectors of collider experiments like those at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a challenging combinatorics problem and computationally intensive. The tenfold increase in the delivered luminosity at the upgraded High Luminosity LHC will result in a very densely populated detector environment. The time taken by conventional techniques for reconstructing particle tracks scales worse than quadratically with track density. Accurately and efficiently assigning the collection of hits left in the tracking detector to the correct particle will be a computational bottleneck and has motivated studying possible alternative approaches. This paper presents a quantum-enhanced machine learning algorithm that uses a support vector machine (SVM) with a quantum-estimated kernel to classify a set of three hits (triplets) as either belonging to or not belonging to the same particle track. The performance of the algorithm is then compared to a fully classical SVM. The quantum algorithm shows an improvement in accuracy versus the classical algorithm. Model complexity metrics are used to hint at an explanation for favorable performance of the quantum kernel.
VL  - 109
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.109.052002
TI  - Reconstructing charged particle track segments with a quantum-enhanced support vector machine
KW  - Science & Technology
KW  -  Physical Sciences
KW  -  Astronomy & Astrophysics
KW  -  Physics
KW  -  Particles & Fields
KW  -  Physics
ER  -