Deep Learning-Based Spatiotemporal Multi-Event Reconstruction for Delay Line Detectors

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Main Authors: Knipfer, Marco, Meier, Stefan, Heimerl, Jonas, Hommelhoff, Peter, Gleyzer, Sergei
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Published: 2023
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author Knipfer, Marco
Meier, Stefan
Heimerl, Jonas
Hommelhoff, Peter
Gleyzer, Sergei
author_facet Knipfer, Marco
Meier, Stefan
Heimerl, Jonas
Hommelhoff, Peter
Gleyzer, Sergei
contents Accurate observation of two or more particles within a very narrow time window has always been a challenge in modern physics. It creates the possibility of correlation experiments, such as the ground-breaking Hanbury Brown-Twiss experiment, leading to new physical insights. For low-energy electrons, one possibility is to use a microchannel plate with subsequent delay lines for the readout of the incident particle hits, a setup called a Delay Line Detector. The spatial and temporal coordinates of more than one particle can be fully reconstructed outside a region called the dead radius. For interesting events, where two electrons are close in space and time, the determination of the individual positions of the electrons requires elaborate peak finding algorithms. While classical methods work well with single particle hits, they fail to identify and reconstruct events caused by multiple nearby particles. To address this challenge, we present a new spatiotemporal machine learning model to identify and reconstruct the position and time of such multi-hit particle signals. This model achieves a much better resolution for nearby particle hits compared to the classical approach, removing some of the artifacts and reducing the dead radius by half. We show that machine learning models can be effective in improving the spatiotemporal performance of delay line detectors.
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spellingShingle Deep Learning-Based Spatiotemporal Multi-Event Reconstruction for Delay Line Detectors
Knipfer, Marco
Meier, Stefan
Heimerl, Jonas
Hommelhoff, Peter
Gleyzer, Sergei
Instrumentation and Detectors
Machine Learning
Optics
Accurate observation of two or more particles within a very narrow time window has always been a challenge in modern physics. It creates the possibility of correlation experiments, such as the ground-breaking Hanbury Brown-Twiss experiment, leading to new physical insights. For low-energy electrons, one possibility is to use a microchannel plate with subsequent delay lines for the readout of the incident particle hits, a setup called a Delay Line Detector. The spatial and temporal coordinates of more than one particle can be fully reconstructed outside a region called the dead radius. For interesting events, where two electrons are close in space and time, the determination of the individual positions of the electrons requires elaborate peak finding algorithms. While classical methods work well with single particle hits, they fail to identify and reconstruct events caused by multiple nearby particles. To address this challenge, we present a new spatiotemporal machine learning model to identify and reconstruct the position and time of such multi-hit particle signals. This model achieves a much better resolution for nearby particle hits compared to the classical approach, removing some of the artifacts and reducing the dead radius by half. We show that machine learning models can be effective in improving the spatiotemporal performance of delay line detectors.
title Deep Learning-Based Spatiotemporal Multi-Event Reconstruction for Delay Line Detectors
topic Instrumentation and Detectors
Machine Learning
Optics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.09359