Reconstruction for Liquid Argon TPC Neutrino Detectors Using Parallel Architectures.
Neutrinos are particles that interact rarely, so identifying them re-quires large detectors which produce lots of data. Processing this data with thecomputing power available is becoming more dicult as the detectors increasein size to reach their physics goals. In liquid argon time projection chambers(TPCs) the charged particles from neutrino interactions produce ionization elec-trons which drift in an electric field towards a series of collection wires, and thesignal on the wires is used to reconstruct the interaction. The MicroBooNEdetector currently collecting data at Fermilab has 8000 wires, and planned fu-ture experiments like DUNE will have 100 times more, which means that thetime required to reconstruct an event will scale accordingly. Modernization ofliquid argon TPC reconstruction code, including vectorization, parallelizationand code portability to GPUs, will help to mitigate these challenges. The liquidargon TPC hit finding algorithm within theLArSoftframework used acrossmultiple experiments has been vectorized and parallelized. This increases thespeed of the algorithm on the order of ten times within a standalone version onIntel architectures. This new version has been incorporated back intoLArSoftso that it can be generally used. These methods will also be applied to otherlow-level reconstruction algorithms of the wire signals such as the deconvolu-tion. The applications and performance of this modernized liquid argon TPCwire reconstruction will be presented.
- Research Organization:
- Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-07CH11359
- OSTI ID:
- 1623370
- Report Number(s):
- FERMILAB-CONF-20-074-SCD; arXiv:2002.06291; oai:inspirehep.net:1796070
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 24th International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics, Adelaide, Australia, 11/04-11/08/2019
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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