AI4EIC Hackathon

<p>AI4EIC 2nd workshop&nbsp;event follows the productive experience of the first AI4EIC workshop held in 2021 at CFNS and is organized by the EICUG AI WG. The scope of this second workshop&nbsp;is to cover all active and potential areas of applications of AI/ML for the EIC. Along with the 2nd workshop, a hackathon is also conducted on the 14th of October 2022 for the whole day.</p> <p>For this hackathon we propose problems of different difficulty, starting from one that is accessible to everyone, that are deemed to be solvable in a one-day event.&nbsp;<br> We focus on the dual-radiator Ring Imaging Cherenkov (dRICH) detector under development as part of the particle-identification (PID) system at the future Electron-Ion Collider (EIC). Data are produced using the ePIC software stack.<br> We choose as a working point a range in momentum around 15 GeV, which corresponds to a region where potentially both radiators can contribute to the $\pi/K$ separation (and certainly at larger momenta the gas radiator can contribute to PID).&nbsp;<br> Despite the inherent `simplicity&#39; of the problems, given the approximations made as explained in this document, this event can potentially become a first step towards machine learning/deep learning application for PID with the dRICH.</p>