10–14 Oct 2016
San Francisco Marriott Marquis
America/Los_Angeles timezone

Reconstruction of Micropattern Detector Signals using Convolutional Neural Networks

11 Oct 2016, 14:45
15m
Sierra A (San Francisco Mariott Marquis)

Sierra A

San Francisco Mariott Marquis

Oral Track 1: Online Computing Track 1: Online Computing

Speaker

Mrs Lucie Flekova (Technical University of Darmstadt)

Description

Micropattern gaseous detector (MPGD) technologies, such as GEMs or MicroMegas, are particularly suitable for precision tracking and triggering in high rate environments. Given their relatively low production costs, MPGDs are an exemplary candidate for the next generation of particle detectors. Having acknowledged these advantages, both the ATLAS and CMS collaborations at the LHC are exploiting these new technologies for their detector upgrade programs in the coming years. When MPGDs are utilized for triggering purposes, the measured signals need to be precisely reconstructed within less than 200 ns, which can be achieved by the usage of FPGAs.

In this work, we present for a novel approach to identify reconstructed signals, their timing and the corresponding spatial position on the detector. In particular, we study the effect of noise and dead readout strips on the reconstruction performance. Our approach leverages the potential of convolutional neural networks (CNNs), which have been recently manifesting an outstanding performance in a range of modeling tasks. The proposed neural network architecture of our CNN is designed simply enough, so that it can be modeled directly by an FPGA and thus provide precise information on reconstructed signals already in trigger level.

Primary Keyword (Mandatory) Artificial intelligence/Machine learning
Secondary Keyword (Optional) Reconstruction

Primary author

Mrs Lucie Flekova (Technical University of Darmstadt)

Co-authors

Andreas Christian Dudder (Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz (DE)) Matthias Schott (Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz (DE))

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