3–6 Feb 2026
Europe/Rome timezone

Boosted Objects in Vector Boson Scattering: from classical to quantum ML prospects

4 Feb 2026, 10:20
20m
Auditorium U12 - Guido Martinotti

Auditorium U12 - Guido Martinotti

Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Edificio U12, Via Vizzola, 5, 20126 Milano (MI)

Speaker

Fabrizio Napolitano (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

Description

The study of Vector Boson Scattering (VBS) at LHC provides a unique window into the electroweak symmetry breaking mechanism. The polarization of the vector bosons enables precision tests of the heart Standard Model at the TeV scale, additionally sensibile to new physics. The highest experimental sensitivity can be achieved in the boosted regime, where the bosons are produced with large transverse momentum, and decay hadronically. However, the resulting collimated decay products are reconstructed as single large-R jets, posing a major challenge for event reconstruction and signal discrimination. In this talk we investigate quantum machine learning strategies for polarization reconstruction, particularly based on Quantum Convolutional Neural Network and Quantum Variational Algorithms.

Sessions Quantum Machine Learning:
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Author

Fabrizio Napolitano (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

Presentation materials