15–19 Jun 2026
UC Irvine
America/New_York timezone

Efficient Calibration of Scintillation Time Constants via Bayesian Optimization (BO)

15 Jun 2026, 16:15
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

Po-Wei Huang (University of Oxford)

Description

Accurate characterization of scintillation emission profiles is essential for robust event reconstruction in liquid scintillator detectors. The SNO+ Collaboration has developed an innovative framework employing Bayesian optimization (BO) to calibrate these timing profiles using internal radioactive backgrounds. Our results demonstrate that BO achieves convergence in at least an order of magnitude fewer iterations compared to traditional grid-search methods. This significant gain in efficiency establishes BO as a robust, reliable approach for accelerating fitter reconstruction and streamlining detector performance during both the commissioning phase and long-term operations.

Contribution types Standard talk (20min + 5min Q/A)

Author

Po-Wei Huang (University of Oxford)

Presentation materials