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Autoencoder-based time series anomaly detection for ATLAS Liquid Argon calorimeter data quality monitoring

Instrumentation and Detectors 2025-12-09 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

The ATLAS experiment at the LHC employs comprehensive data quality monitoring procedures to ensure high-quality physics data. This contribution presents a long short-term memory autoencoder-based algorithm for detecting anomalies in ATLAS Liquid Argon calorimeter data, represented as multidimensional time series of statistical moments of energy cluster properties. Trained on good-quality data, the model identifies anomalous intervals. Validation is performed using a known short-term issue of noise bursts, and the potential for broader application to transient calorimeter issues is discussed.

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@article{arxiv.2512.05977,
  title  = {Autoencoder-based time series anomaly detection for ATLAS Liquid Argon calorimeter data quality monitoring},
  author = {Vilius Čepaitis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.05977},
  year   = {2025}
}

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Proceedings of the European AI for Fundamental Physics Conference (EuCAIFCon 2025)