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Towards the end-to-end optimisation of LHC triggers

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12m
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Speaker

Adrian Chitan (IFIN-HH (RO))

Description

High-energy physics experiments face extreme data rates, requiring real-time trigger systems to reduce event throughput while preserving sensitivity to rare processes. Trigger systems have traditionally been constructed as modular chains of sequentially optimised algorithms, each optimised for a specific local objective with no guarantee of overall optimality.

We instead formulate trigger design as a constrained end-to-end optimisation problem. We implement a differentiable digital twin of an LHC jet trigger and optimise against a unified physics objective. The framework jointly optimises performance while incorporating physics and deployment constraints.

Using Higgs boson pair production as a benchmark, we observe an improvement in signal recall at a fixed false-positive rate, while preserving interpretable intermediate physics objects and monotonic calibration constraints. These results highlight end-to-end differential optimisation as a practical paradigm for next-generation real-time event selection systems.

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Author

Adrian Chitan (IFIN-HH (RO))

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