Graph Neural Network for Object Reconstruction in Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers

19 May 2021, 17:53
13m
Short Talk Offline Computing Artificial Intelligence

Speaker

Jeremy Edmund Hewes (University of Cincinnati (US))

Description

This paper presents a graph neural network (GNN) technique for low-level reconstruction of neutrino interactions in a Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC). GNNs are still a relatively novel technique, and have shown great promise for similar reconstruction tasks in the LHC. In this paper, a multihead attention message passing network is used to classify the relationship between detector hits by labelling graph edges, determining whether hits were produced by the same underlying particle, and if so, the particle type.The trained model is 84% accurate overall, and performs best on the EM shower and muon track classes. The model’s strengths and weaknesses are discussed, and plans for developing this technique further are summarised.

Primary authors

Jeremy Edmund Hewes (University of Cincinnati (US)) Adam Aurisano (University of Cincinnati) Giuseppe Cerati (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) Jim Kowalkowski (Fermilab) Claire Lee (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) Prof. Wei-keng Liao (Northwestern University) Ms Alexandra Day (Northwestern University)

Co-authors

Ankit Agrawal (Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA) Prof. Maria Spiropulu (California Institute of Technology) Dr Jean-Roch Vlimant (California Institute of Technology (US)) Lindsey Gray (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) Thomas Klijnsma (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) Paolo Calafiura (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US)) Mr Sean Conlon (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Steven Farrell (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (US)) Xiangyang Ju (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US)) Daniel Thomas Murnane (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

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