Study of beauty quark production in proton-proton collisions at the LHC collider​

The LHCb group of the G. Galilei Department and the Padua Section of INFN is involved in the study of beauty quark production in proton-proton collisions at the LHC collider. Beauty quarks are identified through the exclusive reconstruction of mesons and baryons containing the beauty quark, such as neutral Bs mesons, or inclusively by identifying jets produced from the hadronization of a beauty quark. Both techniques require sophisticated algorithms, including boosted decision trees or deep neural networks.

Once developed, these algorithms are applied to a significant amount of events to isolate the signal of interest in the physical data. For all these operations, which demand substantial computing resources, as well as for data storage, CloudVeneto resources are extensively utilized.

Dott. Alessandro Bertolin