LArTPC hit-based topology classification with quantum machine learning and symmetry
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| author | Duffy, Callum Jastrzebski, Marcin Vergani, Stefano Whitehead, Leigh H. Cross, Ryan Blake, Andrew Malik, Sarah Marshall, John |
| author_facet | Duffy, Callum Jastrzebski, Marcin Vergani, Stefano Whitehead, Leigh H. Cross, Ryan Blake, Andrew Malik, Sarah Marshall, John |
| contents | We present a new approach to separate track-like and shower-like topologies in liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) experiments for neutrino physics using quantum machine learning. Effective reconstruction of neutrino events in LArTPCs requires accurate and granular information about the energy deposited in the detector. These energy deposits can be viewed as 2-D images. Simulated data from the MicroBooNE experiment and a simple custom dataset are used to perform pixel-level classification of the underlying particle topology. Images of the events have been studied by creating small patches around each pixel to characterise its topology based on its immediate neighbourhood. This classification is achieved using convolution-based learning models, including quantum-enhanced architectures known as quanvolutional neural networks. The quanvolutional networks are extended to symmetries beyond translation. Rotational symmetry has been incorporated into a subset of the models. Quantum-enhanced models perform better than their classical counterparts with a comparable number of parameters but are outperformed by classical models, which contain an order of magnitude more parameters. The inclusion of rotation symmetry appears to benefit only large models and remains to be explored further. |
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| spellingShingle | LArTPC hit-based topology classification with quantum machine learning and symmetry Duffy, Callum Jastrzebski, Marcin Vergani, Stefano Whitehead, Leigh H. Cross, Ryan Blake, Andrew Malik, Sarah Marshall, John Instrumentation and Detectors High Energy Physics - Experiment Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability We present a new approach to separate track-like and shower-like topologies in liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) experiments for neutrino physics using quantum machine learning. Effective reconstruction of neutrino events in LArTPCs requires accurate and granular information about the energy deposited in the detector. These energy deposits can be viewed as 2-D images. Simulated data from the MicroBooNE experiment and a simple custom dataset are used to perform pixel-level classification of the underlying particle topology. Images of the events have been studied by creating small patches around each pixel to characterise its topology based on its immediate neighbourhood. This classification is achieved using convolution-based learning models, including quantum-enhanced architectures known as quanvolutional neural networks. The quanvolutional networks are extended to symmetries beyond translation. Rotational symmetry has been incorporated into a subset of the models. Quantum-enhanced models perform better than their classical counterparts with a comparable number of parameters but are outperformed by classical models, which contain an order of magnitude more parameters. The inclusion of rotation symmetry appears to benefit only large models and remains to be explored further. |
| title | LArTPC hit-based topology classification with quantum machine learning and symmetry |
| topic | Instrumentation and Detectors High Energy Physics - Experiment Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.12655 |