Filtering hits for speeding up online track reconstruction at hadron colliders
Andrea Coccaro, Carlo Schiavi, Alessandro Zaio

TL;DR
This paper presents a neural network-based filtering technique to reduce detector data, significantly speeding up online track reconstruction at high-luminosity collider experiments like the LHC.
Contribution
A novel convolutional neural network approach for filtering detector hits, improving the efficiency of real-time track reconstruction in high-occupancy collider environments.
Findings
The neural network effectively filters unnecessary detector hits.
The method reduces processing time for track reconstruction.
It can be deployed on accelerator hardware for real-time use.
Abstract
Collider experiments are equipped with trigger systems that rapidly inspect the physics content emerging from collisions to decide whether the resulting products are worth saving for later analysis. One crucial aspect for analyzing the final states originating from the collisions is to process the information produced by charged particles in the innermost detectors to reconstruct the corresponding trajectories. This task is a challenge for the experiments running at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN because of the large number of secondary collisions per bunch crossing, the so-called pile-up vertices, giving rise to extremely high hit occupancies in the detector layers close to the beam line. Reconstructing tracks is a combinatorial problem and its processing time strongly depends on the average pile-up per event. The future accelerator-complex upgrade to the High-Luminosity LHC,…
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