{"id":230404,"date":"2026-02-03T01:36:54","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T07:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/ai-streamlines-deluge-of-data-from-particle-collisions"},"modified":"2026-02-03T01:36:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T07:36:54","slug":"ai-streamlines-deluge-of-data-from-particle-collisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/ai-streamlines-deluge-of-data-from-particle-collisions","title":{"rendered":"AI streamlines deluge of data from particle collisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-streamlines-deluge-of-data-from-particle-collisions2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a novel artificial intelligence (AI)-based method to dramatically tame the flood of data generated by particle detectors at modern accelerators. The new custom-built algorithm uses a neural network to intelligently compress collision data, adapting automatically to the density or \u201csparsity\u201d of the signals it receives.<\/p>\n<p>As described in a paper just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/patterns\/fulltext\/S2666-3899(25)00300-9\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal <i>Patterns<\/i>, the scientists used simulated data from sPHENIX, a particle detector at Brookhaven Lab\u2019s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), to demonstrate the algorithm\u2019s potential to handle trillions of bits of detector data per second while preserving the fine details physicists need to explore the building blocks of matter.<\/p>\n<p>The algorithm will help physicists gear up for a new era of streaming data acquisition, where every collision is recorded without pre-selecting which ones might be of interest. This will vastly expand the potential for more accurate measurements and unanticipated discoveries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a novel artificial intelligence (AI)-based method to dramatically tame the flood of data generated by particle detectors at modern accelerators. The new custom-built algorithm uses a neural network to intelligently compress collision data, adapting automatically to the density or \u201csparsity\u201d of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,48,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-particle-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}