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arXiv · 2602.17582

Building an AI-native Research Ecosystem for Experimental Particle Physics: A Community Vision

Thea Klaeboe Aarrestad·Alaa Abdelhamid·Haider Abidi·Jahred Adelman·Jennifer Adelman-McCarthy·Shuchin Aeron·Garvita Agarwal·Usman Ali·Cristiano Alpigiani·Omar Alterkait·Mohamed Aly·Oz Amram·Saeed Ansari Fard·Aram Apyan·John Arrington·Marvin Ascencio-Sosa·Mohammad Atif·Aneesha Avasthi·Muhammad Bilal Azam·Bhim Bam·Joshua Barrow·Rainer Bartoldus·Amit Bashyal·Aashwin Basnet·Ayse Bat·Lothar A. T. Bauerdick·John Beacom·Chris Bee·Michael Begel·Matthew Bellis·Rene Bellwied·Rakitha Beminiwattha·Gabriele Benelli·Douglas Benjamin·Catrin Bernius·Binod Bhandari·Avinay Bhat·Meghna Bhattacharya·Saptaparna Bhattacharya·Prajita Bhattarai·Sudip Bhattarai·Wahid Bhimji·Jianming Bian·Burak Bilki·Mary Bishai·Kevin Black·Kenneth Bloom·Brian Bockelman·Johan Sebastian Bonilla Castro·Tulika Bose·Nilay Bostan·Othmane Bouhali·Dimitri Bourilkov·Dominic Brailsford·Gustaaf Brooijmans·Elizabeth Brost·Maria Brigida Brunetti·Quentin Buat·Brendon Bullard·Jackson Burzynski·Paolo Calafiura·Rodolfo Capdevilla·Fabian Andres Castaño Usuga·Raquel Castillo Fernandez·Fabio Catalano·Viviana Cavaliere·Flavio Cavanna·Giuseppe Cerati·Aidan Chambers·Maria Chamizo-Llatas·Philip Chang·Andrew Chappell·Arghya Chattopadhyay·Sergei Chekanov·Jian-ping Chen·Yi Chen·Zhengyang Chen·J. Taylor Childers·Hector Chinchay·Yuan-Tang Chou·Tasnuva Chowdhury·Neil Christensen·Wonyong Chung·Rafael Coelho Lopes de Sa·Simon Corrodi·Kyle Cranmer·Matteo Cremonesi·Roy Cruz·Mate Csanad·Mariarosaria D'Alfonso·Carlo Dallapiccola·Daine Danielson·Sridhara Dasu·Gavin Davies·Kaushik De·Patrick de Perio·Klaus Dehmelt·Marco Del Tutto·Carlos Ruben Dell'Aquila·Sarah Demers

Abstract

Experimental particle physics seeks to understand the universe by probing its fundamental particles and forces and exploring how they govern the large-scale processes that shape cosmic evolution. This whitepaper presents a vision for how Artificial Intelligence (AI) can accelerate discovery in this field. We outline grand challenges that must be addressed to enable transformative breakthroughs and describe how current and planned experimental facilities can implement this vision to advance our understanding of the vast and complex physical world from the smallest to the largest scales. We show how facilities currently under construction, such as the HL-LHC, DUNE and soon EIC, can both benefit from and serve as proving grounds for this vision, while also enabling a longer-term goal for how future experiments -- like FCC-ee at CERN, IceCube-Gen2, a Muon Collider in the U.S., and smaller to mid-scale projects -- can be fully AI-native. We describe how a truly national-scale collaboration, jointly managed across large funding partners, and involving both DOE laboratories and universities, can make this happen.

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Thea Klaeboe Aarrestad, Alaa Abdelhamid, Haider Abidi, Jahred Adelman, Jennifer Adelman-McCarthy, Shuchin Aeron, Garvita Agarwal, Usman Ali, Cristiano Alpigiani, Omar Alterkait, Mohamed Aly, Oz Amram, Saeed Ansari Fard, Aram Apyan, John Arrington, Marvin Ascencio-Sosa, Mohammad Atif, Aneesha Avasthi, Muhammad Bilal Azam, Bhim Bam, Joshua Barrow, Rainer Bartoldus, Amit Bashyal, Aashwin Basnet, Ayse Bat, Lothar A. T. Bauerdick, John Beacom, Chris Bee, Michael Begel, Matthew Bellis, Rene Bellwied, Rakitha Beminiwattha, Gabriele Benelli, Douglas Benjamin, Catrin Bernius, Binod Bhandari, Avinay Bhat, Meghna Bhattacharya, Saptaparna Bhattacharya, Prajita Bhattarai, Sudip Bhattarai, Wahid Bhimji, Jianming Bian, Burak Bilki, Mary Bishai, Kevin Black, Kenneth Bloom, Brian Bockelman, Johan Sebastian Bonilla Castro, Tulika Bose, Nilay Bostan, Othmane Bouhali, Dimitri Bourilkov, Dominic Brailsford, Gustaaf Brooijmans, Elizabeth Brost, Maria Brigida Brunetti, Quentin Buat, Brendon Bullard, Jackson Burzynski, Paolo Calafiura, Rodolfo Capdevilla, Fabian Andres Castaño Usuga, Raquel Castillo Fernandez, Fabio Catalano, Viviana Cavaliere, Flavio Cavanna, Giuseppe Cerati, Aidan Chambers, Maria Chamizo-Llatas, Philip Chang, Andrew Chappell, Arghya Chattopadhyay, Sergei Chekanov, Jian-ping Chen, Yi Chen, Zhengyang Chen, J. Taylor Childers, Hector Chinchay, Yuan-Tang Chou, Tasnuva Chowdhury, Neil Christensen, Wonyong Chung, Rafael Coelho Lopes de Sa, Simon Corrodi, Kyle Cranmer, Matteo Cremonesi, Roy Cruz, Mate Csanad, Mariarosaria D'Alfonso, Carlo Dallapiccola, Daine Danielson, Sridhara Dasu, Gavin Davies, Kaushik De, Patrick de Perio, Klaus Dehmelt, Marco Del Tutto, Carlos Ruben Dell'Aquila, Sarah Demers. 2026-02-19. Building an AI-native Research Ecosystem for Experimental Particle Physics: A Community Vision. https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.17582

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