Diffusion-Based Point-Cloud Generation of Heavy-Ion Events

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Auteurs principaux: Sadek, Rita, Mikuni, Vinicius, Ploskon, Mateusz
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author Sadek, Rita
Mikuni, Vinicius
Ploskon, Mateusz
author_facet Sadek, Rita
Mikuni, Vinicius
Ploskon, Mateusz
contents Heavy-ion collisions produce final states with thousands to tens of thousands of particles, making their simulation among the most computationally intensive tasks in high-energy nuclear physics. We present a fast, high-fidelity generative model for heavy-ion events based on a score-driven diffusion process and the Point-Edge Transformer architecture within the OmniLearn framework. A two-stage training strategy is performed: Stage-1 training on lower-multiplicity O-O collisions allowing the model to learn a stable event and particles representation, followed by fine-tuning on challenging high-multiplicity Pb-Pb collisions. We benchmark the generator with a broad set of closure checks, including agreement of event- and particle-level observables in one and two dimensions, flow consistency reconstructed from the generated particles, end-to-end jet finding with FastJet including key jet and substructure observables, and a classifier-based application to quantify the sample fidelity. The results are promising, showing that a compact generative model can produce realistic, high-multiplicity heavy-ion events, at a level that makes local-scale generation for heavy-ion collisions at high energies a practical goal.
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spellingShingle Diffusion-Based Point-Cloud Generation of Heavy-Ion Events
Sadek, Rita
Mikuni, Vinicius
Ploskon, Mateusz
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Nuclear Experiment
Heavy-ion collisions produce final states with thousands to tens of thousands of particles, making their simulation among the most computationally intensive tasks in high-energy nuclear physics. We present a fast, high-fidelity generative model for heavy-ion events based on a score-driven diffusion process and the Point-Edge Transformer architecture within the OmniLearn framework. A two-stage training strategy is performed: Stage-1 training on lower-multiplicity O-O collisions allowing the model to learn a stable event and particles representation, followed by fine-tuning on challenging high-multiplicity Pb-Pb collisions. We benchmark the generator with a broad set of closure checks, including agreement of event- and particle-level observables in one and two dimensions, flow consistency reconstructed from the generated particles, end-to-end jet finding with FastJet including key jet and substructure observables, and a classifier-based application to quantify the sample fidelity. The results are promising, showing that a compact generative model can produce realistic, high-multiplicity heavy-ion events, at a level that makes local-scale generation for heavy-ion collisions at high energies a practical goal.
title Diffusion-Based Point-Cloud Generation of Heavy-Ion Events
topic High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Nuclear Experiment
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.06458