arXiv:2410.07267physics.ins-detcs.LG2024-10

用频谱启发的神经网络精准识别闪烁脉冲特征,提升粒子探测精度。

Scintillation pulse characterization with spectrum-inspired temporal neural networks: case studies on particle detector signals

  • 基于快速傅里叶变换提取信号频域特征,构建轻量级时序建模框架
  • 在LUX与NICA/MPD数据上性能超越传统模型,准确率显著提升
  • 适合高能物理、核医学等需精确脉冲分析的场景

基于闪烁体的粒子探测器广泛应用于高能物理、天体物理、核医学成像及工业环境检测等领域。在事件层面精确提取闪烁信号特征对理解闪烁体性质及入射粒子种类与物理特性至关重要。近年研究表明,数据驱动的神经网络在解析复杂信号方面优于传统统计方法,尤其当信号解析形式难以获得或噪声显著时。然而,多数全连接或卷积网络未能充分挖掘闪烁信号的频谱与时间结构,存在优化空间。本文提出一种专为闪烁脉冲表征设计的神经网络架构,借鉴时序分析前沿工作,核心思想是直接对原始信号应用快速傅里叶变换(FFT),利用不同频率成分构建特征表示。我们在两个案例中验证该方法:(a) 基于暗物质探测器LUX设置生成的仿真数据;(b) 使用快速电子设备模拟闪烁变化的NICA/MPD量能器实验电信号。结果表明,所提模型在性能上显著优于文献参考模型及全连接模型,并展现出高于传统机器学习方法的成本效益。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Particle detectors based on scintillators are widely used in high-energy physics and astroparticle physics experiments, nuclear medicine imaging, industrial and environmental detection, etc. Precisely extracting scintillation signal characteristics at the event level is important for these applications, not only in respect of understanding the scintillator itself, but also kinds and physical property of incident particles. Recent researches demonstrate data-driven neural networks surpass traditional statistical methods, especially when the analytical form of signals is hard to obtain, or noise is significant. However, most densely connected or convolution-based networks fail to fully exploit the spectral and temporal structure of scintillation signals, leaving large space for performance improvement. In this paper, we propose a network architecture specially tailored for scintillation pulse characterization based on previous works on time series analysis. The core insight is that, by directly applying Fast Fourier Transform on original signals and utilizing different frequency components, the proposed network architecture can serve as a lightweight and enhanced representation learning backbone. We prove our idea in two case studies: (a) simulation data generated with the setting of the LUX dark matter detector, and (b) experimental electrical signals with fast electronics to emulate scintillation variations for the NICA/MPD calorimeter. The proposed model achieves significantly better results than the reference model in literature and densely connected models and demonstrates higher cost-efficiency than conventional machine learning methods.

信号处理神经网络粒子探测频谱分析

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