25–29 May 2026
Chulalongkorn University
Asia/Bangkok timezone

From Hits to Tracks: A Transformer Approach for Track Reconstruction in Drift Chambers

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Chulalongkorn University

Chulalongkorn University

Poster Presentation Track 3 - Offline data processing Poster

Speaker

Yipu Liao (Institute of High Energy Physics, CAS, Beijing)

Description

Denoising and track reconstruction in drift chambers fundamental to particle identification and momentum measurement at electron-positron colliders. While Transformer architectures have revolutionized many sequence-processing domains, their potential for track reconstruction in high-energy physics has not been fully explored. In this work, we introduce Transformer-based methods at two stages of the reconstruction chain. At the hit level, we employ an attention-based model trained via masked learning to distinguish signal hits from background noise, achieving robustness across varying track multiplicities. At the track level, a fine-tuned BERT model performs hit-to-track association. We also evaluate the impact of input representations by comparing physical variables in detector space with latent features derived from Graph Neural Networks. This study illustrates a practical integration of advanced deep learning techniques into high-energy physics tracking systems, providing a promising pathway to enhance reconstruction efficiency and accuracy.

Authors

Yao Zhang Yipu Liao (Institute of High Energy Physics, CAS, Beijing)

Co-authors

Jingde Chen (Institute of High Energy Physics) Ke LI Liyan Qian (Institute of High Energy Physics, CAS, Beijing) Shimiao Jiang (China Academy of Space Technology, Beijing) Ye Yuan (Institute of High Energy Physics, CAS, Beijing) Zhaoke Zhang (Institute of High Energy Physics, CAS, Beijing)

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