The Pandora multi-algorithm approach to automated pattern recognition of cosmic-ray muon and neutrino events in the MicroBooNE detector
Open Access
- 29 January 2018
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in The European Physical Journal C
- Vol. 78 (1), 1-25
- https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5481-6
Abstract
The development and operation of liquid-argon time-projection chambers for neutrino physics has created a need for new approaches to pattern recognition in order to fully exploit the imaging capabilities offered by this technology. Whereas the human brain can excel at identifying features in the recorded events, it is a significant challenge to develop an automated, algorithmic solution. The Pandora Software Development Kit provides functionality to aid the design and implementation of pattern-recognition algorithms. It promotes the use of a multi-algorithm approach to pattern recognition, in which individual algorithms each address a specific task in a particular topology. Many tens of algorithms then carefully build up a picture of the event and, together, provide a robust automated pattern-recognition solution. This paper describes details of the chain of over one hundred Pandora algorithms and tools used to reconstruct cosmic-ray muon and neutrino events in the MicroBooNE detector. Metrics that assess the current pattern-recognition performance are presented for simulated MicroBooNE events, using a selection of final-state event topologies.Funding Information
- H2020 Research Infrastructures (654168)
- National Science Foundation
- High Energy Physics
- Royal Society
- Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics
- Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung
- Science and Technology Facilities Council
- Nuclear Physics
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