AQA+CERN-QTI mini-workshop quantum algorithms for HEP

Tuesday 20 Feb 2024, 09:00 → 17:00 Europe/Amsterdam

Gorterzaal (Leiden University Oort building)

In this workshop we would like to create the right synergy between HEP and QI community within the current Leiden and CERN QTI collaboration with the goal of defining a potential roadmap.

09:00 → 09:30 Welcome: Welcome and introductions

09:30 → 10:00 Motivating Quantum For HEP

Speaker: Prof. Juan Rojo

rojo-QuantumHEP-motivation.pdf

10:00 → 10:45 Feynman diagram to cross sections: defining a common language

Speaker: Dr Michele Grossi (CERN)

11:00 → 11:20 Tools of the trade: a Typical HEP Pipeline

The Machinery of High-Energy Physics, including:
• Monte Carlo event generation,
• detector simulation,
• events,
• physics objects,
• analysis cuts and event selection,
• histograms,
• binned likelihood fits,
• statistical and systematic uncertainties
• current HEP problem/bottlenecks.

Speaker: Vincent Alexander Croft (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))

ToolsOfTheTrade

11:20 → 11:40 Quantum Simulation for Theoretical Modelling

Speaker: Patrick Emonts

11:40 → 12:00 Locality, entanglement, and bell-tests: A quantum information perspective.

Speaker: Eloïc Vallée

12:00 → 13:00 Open discussion: Bridging the gap, applications of quantum algorithms to HEP

13:00 → 15:00 Lunch

15:00 → 17:00 Round table and outlook: defining projects that make the next steps.

A review of any remaining potential in the following:
- Projects in quantum classification/anomaly detection.
- Projects in tracking/anealing/optimisation.
- Projects in quantum generative modelling
- Projects in hamiltonian learning
- Projects in topological data analysis
- Projects in entanglement and bell tests