Abstract
In liquid argon time projection chambers exposed to neutrino beams and running on or near surface levels, cosmic muons, and other cosmic particles are incident on the detectors while a single neutrino-induced event is being recorded. In practice, this means that data from surface liquid argon time projection chambers will be dominated by cosmic particles, both as a source of event triggers and as the majority of the particle count in true neutrino-triggered events. In this work, we demonstrate a novel application of deep learning techniques to remove these background particles by applying deep learning on full detector images from the SBND detector, the near detector in the Fermilab Short-Baseline Neutrino Program. We use this technique to identify, on a pixel-by-pixel level, whether recorded activity originated from cosmic particles or neutrino interactions.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 649917 |
Journal | Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence |
Volume | 4 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Aug 24 2021 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2021 Acciarri, Adams, Andreopoulos, Asaadi.
ASJC Scopus Subject Areas
- Artificial Intelligence
Keywords
- SBN program
- SBND
- UNet
- deep learning
- liquid Ar detectors
- neutrino physics