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Using deep learning to enhance event geometry reconstruction for the telescope array surface detector. / Ivanov, D.; Kalashev, O. E.; Kuznetsov, M. Yu et al.
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T1 - Using deep learning to enhance event geometry reconstruction for the telescope array surface detector
AU - Ivanov, D.
AU - Kalashev, O. E.
AU - Kuznetsov, M. Yu
AU - Rubtsov, G.
AU - Sako, T.
AU - Tsunesada, Y.
AU - Zhezher, Y.
N1 - We would like to thank Anatoli Fedynitch, John Matthews, Maxim Pshirkov, Hiroyuki Sagawa, Gordon Thomson, Petr Tinyakov, Igor Tkachev and Sergey Troitsky for fruitful discussion and comments. We gratefully acknowledge the Telescope Array collaboration for support of this project on all its stages. The cluster of the Theoretical Division of INR RAS was used for the numerical part of the work. We appreciate the assistance of Yuri Kolesov in configuring the high-performance computing system based on graphic cards. The work is supported by the Russian Science Foundation grant 17-72-20291. This work was partially supported by the Collaborative research program of the Institute for Cosmic Ray Research (ICRR), the University of Tokyo.
PY - 2021/3
Y1 - 2021/3
N2 - The extremely low flux of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECR) makes their direct observation by orbital experiments practically impossible. For this reason all current and planned UHECR experiments detect cosmic rays indirectly by observing the extensive air showers (EAS) initiated by cosmic ray particles in the atmosphere. The world largest statistics of the ultra-high energy EAS events is recorded by the networks of surface stations. In this paper we consider a novel approach for reconstruction of the arrival direction of the primary particle based on the deep convolutional neural network. The latter is using raw time-resolved signals of the set of the adjacent trigger stations as an input. The Telescope Array (TA) Surface Detector (SD) is an array of 507 stations, each containing two layers plastic scintillator with an area of 3 m(2). The training of the model is performed with the Monte-Carlo dataset. It is shown that within the Monte-Carlo simulations, the new approach yields better resolution than the traditional reconstruction method based on the fitting of the EAS front. The details of the network architecture and its optimization for this particular task are discussed.
AB - The extremely low flux of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECR) makes their direct observation by orbital experiments practically impossible. For this reason all current and planned UHECR experiments detect cosmic rays indirectly by observing the extensive air showers (EAS) initiated by cosmic ray particles in the atmosphere. The world largest statistics of the ultra-high energy EAS events is recorded by the networks of surface stations. In this paper we consider a novel approach for reconstruction of the arrival direction of the primary particle based on the deep convolutional neural network. The latter is using raw time-resolved signals of the set of the adjacent trigger stations as an input. The Telescope Array (TA) Surface Detector (SD) is an array of 507 stations, each containing two layers plastic scintillator with an area of 3 m(2). The training of the model is performed with the Monte-Carlo dataset. It is shown that within the Monte-Carlo simulations, the new approach yields better resolution than the traditional reconstruction method based on the fitting of the EAS front. The details of the network architecture and its optimization for this particular task are discussed.
KW - ultra-high energy cosmic rays
KW - machine learning
KW - telescope array observatory
KW - ENERGY COSMIC-RAYS
KW - ARRIVAL DIRECTIONS
KW - FLUORESCENCE DETECTORS
KW - SCALE ANISOTROPY
KW - EEV
KW - DISTANCES
KW - SEARCH
KW - FLUX
U2 - 10.1088/2632-2153/abae74
DO - 10.1088/2632-2153/abae74
M3 - Article
VL - 2
JO - Machine learning-Science and technology
JF - Machine learning-Science and technology
SN - 2632-2153
IS - 1
M1 - 015006
ER -
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