66 research outputs found
Accelerating Science with Generative Adversarial Networks: An Application to 3D Particle Showers in Multi-Layer Calorimeters
Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) rely on detailed simulations of
particle collisions to build expectations of what experimental data may look
like under different theory modeling assumptions. Petabytes of simulated data
are needed to develop analysis techniques, though they are expensive to
generate using existing algorithms and computing resources. The modeling of
detectors and the precise description of particle cascades as they interact
with the material in the calorimeter are the most computationally demanding
steps in the simulation pipeline. We therefore introduce a deep neural
network-based generative model to enable high-fidelity, fast, electromagnetic
calorimeter simulation. There are still challenges for achieving precision
across the entire phase space, but our current solution can reproduce a variety
of particle shower properties while achieving speed-up factors of up to
100,000. This opens the door to a new era of fast simulation that could
save significant computing time and disk space, while extending the reach of
physics searches and precision measurements at the LHC and beyond.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures; version accepted by Physical Review Letters (PRL
CaloGAN: Simulating 3D High Energy Particle Showers in Multi-Layer Electromagnetic Calorimeters with Generative Adversarial Networks
The precise modeling of subatomic particle interactions and propagation
through matter is paramount for the advancement of nuclear and particle physics
searches and precision measurements. The most computationally expensive step in
the simulation pipeline of a typical experiment at the Large Hadron Collider
(LHC) is the detailed modeling of the full complexity of physics processes that
govern the motion and evolution of particle showers inside calorimeters. We
introduce \textsc{CaloGAN}, a new fast simulation technique based on generative
adversarial networks (GANs). We apply these neural networks to the modeling of
electromagnetic showers in a longitudinally segmented calorimeter, and achieve
speedup factors comparable to or better than existing full simulation
techniques on CPU (-) and even faster on GPU (up to
). There are still challenges for achieving precision across
the entire phase space, but our solution can reproduce a variety of geometric
shower shape properties of photons, positrons and charged pions. This
represents a significant stepping stone toward a full neural network-based
detector simulation that could save significant computing time and enable many
analyses now and in the future.Comment: 14 pages, 4 tables, 13 figures; version accepted by Physical Review D
(PRD
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