About track
High-Energy Physics (HEP) experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) involve protons colliding at nearly the speed of light, producing various particles in the final state. When quarks and gluons (collectively known as partons) are produced in high-energy collisions, they undergo a complex process governed by Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), resulting in jets—collimated sprays of particles that appear in detectors.
In this hackathon challenge, participants will build quantum (or hybrid classical-quantum) algorithms to model how parton-level information translates into final-state jets.
Timeline
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Why this track exists?
Learn a mapping: Partons ⟶ Jets.
Predict:
Predict:
- Number of jets () in each collision event.
- Leading and Sub-leading jet .
Who is this track for?
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Prizes & Outcomes
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How to get started
You must submit a file (e.g., submission.csv) with one row per event in the test set, containing:
- EventID – The identifier for the event.
- – Predicted number of jets for that event.
- Leading Jet – The predicted transverse momentum of the highest- jet.
- Subleading Jet – The predicted transverse momentum of the second-highest- jet.