首个端到端可微分光学粒子探测器模拟器,统一校准与重建流程。
End-to-end Differentiable Calibration and Reconstruction for Optical Particle Detectors
- 构建可微分框架,统一光生成、传播、检测全过程
- 梯度优化实现校准与重建,精度和速度优于传统方法
- 模块化设计适配多种探测器结构,适合实验优化
大规模均质光学读出探测器广泛应用于粒子探测,如切伦科夫和闪烁体中微子探测器。实验物理分析依赖高保真模拟器,将传感器级信息转化为感兴趣的物理量。这一任务关键在于准确校准(使仿真行为与真实数据对齐)和轨迹重建(从光学信号推断粒子特性)。本文提出首个端到端可微分光学粒子探测器模拟器,通过梯度优化实现校准与重建的同步进行。该方法将传统上独立处理的模拟、校准与追踪统一在一个可微框架中。我们证明其在光生成、传播和探测各关键阶段均能产生平滑且物理意义明确的梯度,同时保持计算效率。梯度驱动的校准与重建显著简化现有分析流程,在准确性和速度上达到或超过传统非可微方法。此外,框架的模块化设计使其可轻松适应不同探测器几何结构和目标材料,为实验设计与优化提供灵活基础。结果表明该技术已具备在当前及未来光学探测实验中应用的成熟度,确立了粒子物理中模拟与重建的新范式。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Large-scale homogeneous detectors with optical readouts are widely used in particle detection, with Cherenkov and scintillator neutrino detectors as prominent examples. Analyses in experimental physics rely on high-fidelity simulators to translate sensor-level information into physical quantities of interest. This task critically depends on accurate calibration, which aligns simulation behavior with real detector data, and on tracking, which infers particle properties from optical signals. We present the first end-to-end differentiable optical particle detector simulator, enabling simultaneous calibration and reconstruction through gradient-based optimization. Our approach unifies simulation, calibration, and tracking, which are traditionally treated as separate problems, within a single differentiable framework. We demonstrate that it achieves smooth and physically meaningful gradients across all key stages of light generation, propagation, and detection while maintaining computational efficiency. We show that gradient-based calibration and reconstruction greatly simplify existing analysis pipelines while matching or surpassing the performance of conventional non-differentiable methods in both accuracy and speed. Moreover, the framework's modularity allows straightforward adaptation to diverse detector geometries and target materials, providing a flexible foundation for experiment design and optimization. The results demonstrate the readiness of this technique for adoption in current and future optical detector experiments, establishing a new paradigm for simulation and reconstruction in particle physics.
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