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The Institute of Experimental Particle Physics (ETP) of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) investigates the fundamental puzzles of nature. Research focuses on international projects in elementary particle physics and astroparticle physics. Together with further institutes, we form the center of excellence KCETA.

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Dr. Karim GuirguisMonika Schneider (ITIV)
Guest Lecture of Dr. Ing. Karim Guirguis at ITIV

December 23, 2025

As part of the Hardware/Software Co-Design course, Dr. Ing. Karim Guirguis (SiMa.AI) gave a guest lecture at the Institute for Information Processing Technology (ITIV). The ITIV and the ETP are cooperating with SiMa.AI in the BMFTR project DEEP.

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**Graph: FGC-Speedup gegen Datensatzgröße; Linien zeigen FAISS, ScaNN, HNSWLIB, Annoy, GGNN.**Jan Kieseler
FastGraph: GPU-Accelerated Graph Construction for Particle Reconstruction

December 5, 2025

With FastGraph, ETP researchers and collaborators achieve up to 300-fold faster creation of hit-connection graphs without added memory overhead. This removes a key bottleneck in graph-based reconstruction.

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Dr. Brendan Regnery und Dr. Luca Menzio mit Infrarot-Schutzbrillen vor dem TPA-TCT-Aufbau am CERN.Brendan Regnery
Two Photons are better than one

November 21, 2025

Dr. Brendan Regnery (ETP) and Dr. Luca Menzio (CERN) have tested next generation silicon sensors using TPA-TCT technology based on two-photon absorption.

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