15–19 Jun 2026
UC Irvine
America/New_York timezone

Improving Detector Systematic Uncertainties Through Data-Driven Machine Learning

15 Jun 2026, 16:40
20m
The Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building (UC Irvine)

The Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building

UC Irvine

419 Physical Sciences Quad, Irvine, CA 92697
Applications in Experiments Experimental Applications Applications: Detector Calibration & Systematic Uncertainties

Speaker

Harry Hausner (Fermilab)

Description

Detector simulation in liquid argon time projection chambers (LArTPCs) is a constant challenge. In particular the modeling of electrons response on wires is highly nontrivial. However, new machine learning techniques exist which can be leveraged to ameliorate these concerns. We present a novel methodology to attempt to learn from cosmic muon data in the ICARUS detector how reconstructed wire signals are influenced by features of the hits such as location, particle direction, angle relative to the wire plane, etc. A model can then be generated which can apply the learned mapping to Monte Carlo events to create a more data-like simulation sample. By creating such a sample we expect to reduce the systematic uncertainties at ICARUS due to our detector modeling.

Author

Harry Hausner (Fermilab)

Presentation materials