Article ; Online: Towards Neural Charged Particle Tracking in Digital Tracking Calorimeters With Reinforcement Learning.
IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence
2023 Volume 45, Issue 12, Page(s) 15820–15833
Abstract: We propose a novel technique for reconstructing charged particles in digital tracking calorimeters using reinforcement learning aiming to benefit from the rapid progress and success of neural network architectures without the dependency on simulated or ... ...
Abstract | We propose a novel technique for reconstructing charged particles in digital tracking calorimeters using reinforcement learning aiming to benefit from the rapid progress and success of neural network architectures without the dependency on simulated or manually-labeled data. Here we optimize by trial-and-error a behavior policy acting as an approximation to the full combinatorial optimization problem, maximizing the physical plausibility of sampled trajectories. In modern processing pipelines used in high energy physics and related applications, tracking plays an essential role allowing to identify and follow charged particle trajectories traversing particle detectors. Due to the high multiplicity of charged particles and their physical interactions, randomly deflecting the particles, the reconstruction is a challenging undertaking, requiring fast, accurate and robust algorithms. Our approach works on graph-structured data, capturing track hypotheses through edge connections between particles in the detector layers. We demonstrate in a comprehensive study on simulated data for a particle detector used for proton computed tomography, the high potential as well as the competitiveness of our approach compared to a heuristic search algorithm and a model trained on ground truth. Finally, we point out limitations of our approach, guiding towards a robust foundation for further development of reinforcement learning based tracking. |
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Language | English |
Publishing date | 2023-11-07 |
Publishing country | United States |
Document type | Journal Article |
ISSN | 1939-3539 |
ISSN (online) | 1939-3539 |
DOI | 10.1109/TPAMI.2023.3305027 |
Database | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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