Around the Forces in 80 Microseconds
Abstract: With large amounts of data, a Higgs boson discovery, and world-leading constraints on fundamental forces, the Large Hadron Collider has been a phenomenal tool. However, it is going through a mid-life crisis. More data, more Higgs bosons, and more constraints are not bringing the same excitement that we have had in the past. We venture in a new direction with fresh insights that allow us to perform unprecedented physics measurements, leading to many results, including a mysterious deviation in Higgs boson production and a path toward artificial intelligence-automated physics searches. We then look at the future of the LHC and present a real-time system built around novel AI-based processing technology that will expand the scope of future physics measurements at the LHC. We extend the same real-time AI approaches into gravitational wave astrophysics, highlighting new results with an end-to-end AI pipeline. Finally, we show how a community is emerging around real-time “Fast Machine Learning,” leading to a new paradigm for next-generation real-time experiments.