Enhanced Ionization Charge Identification in the Short-Baseline Neutrino Program Neutrino Detectors with Deep Neural Networks
Instrumentation and Detectors
2026-05-29 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract
We present a deep neural net-based region of interest detection method (DNN ROI) for signal processing in the liquid argon time projection chambers of the Short-Baseline Neutrino (SBN) Program, SBND and ICARUS. DNN ROI addresses limitations of the traditional wire-by-wire thresholding algorithm by leveraging the full two-dimensional detector readout and cross-plane matching information. To account for detector performance variations, we explore training with augmented samples. We find that DNN ROI outperforms the traditional method in both low-level ROI identification performance and high-level reconstruction metrics for high-energy cosmic and accelerator neutrino interaction products, while also being more robust against detector variations, with or without sample augmentation.
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@article{arxiv.2605.18861,
title = {Enhanced Ionization Charge Identification in the Short-Baseline Neutrino Program Neutrino Detectors with Deep Neural Networks},
author = {P. Abratenko and N. Abrego-Martinez and R. Acciarri and A. Aduszkiewicz and F. Akbar and D. Andrade Aldana and L. Aliaga-Soplin and F. Abd Alrahman and R. Alvarez-Garrote and C. Andreopoulos and A. Antonakis and M. Artero Pons and J. Asaadi and W. F. Badgett and S. Baena and B. Baibussinov and S. Balasubramanian and A. Barnard and V. Basque and J. Bateman and A. Beever and B. Behera and E. Belchior and V. Bellini and R. Benocci and J. Berger and S. Bertolucci and M. Betancourt and A. Bhat and M. Bishai and A. Blake and A. Blanchet and F. Boffelli and B. Bogart and M. Bonesini and T. Boone and B. Bottino and A. Braggiotti and D. Brailsford and A. Brandt and S. J. Brice and S. Brickner and V. Brio and C. Brizzolari and M. B. Brunetti and H. S. Budd and L. Camilleri and A. Campani and A. Campos and D. Caratelli and D. Carber and B. Carlson and M. F. Carneiro and I. Caro Terrazas and H. Carranza and R. Castillo and F. Castillo Fernandez and F. Cavanna and S. Centro and G. Cerati and A. Chappell and A. Chatterjee and H. Chen and D. Cherdack and S. Cherubini and N. Chithirasreemadam and S. Chung and M. F. Cicala and M. Cicerchia and R. Coackley and T. E. Coan and A. Cocco and M. R. Convery and L. Cooper-Troendle and S. Copello and C. Cuesta and Y. Dabburi and O. Dalager and M. Dall'Olio and A. A. Dange and R. Darby and S. Kr Das and M. Diwan and Z. Djurcic and S. Dolan and S. Dominguez-Vidales and S. Di Domizio and S. Donati and F. Drielsma and M. Dubnowski and K. Duffy and J. Dyer and S. Dytman and A. Ereditato and J. J. Evans and A. Ezeribe and A. Falcone and C. Fan and C. Farnese and A. Fava and D. Di Ferdinando and A. Filkins and B. Fleming and W. Foreman and D. Franco and G. Fricano and I. Furic and A. Furmanski and N. Gallice and S. Gao and D. Garcia-Gamez and S. Gardiner and C. Gatto and D. Gibin and I. Gil-Botella and A. Gioiosa and S. Gollapinni and P. Green and W. C. Griffith and W. Gu and A. Guglielmi and G. Gurung and L. Hagaman and P. Hamilton and K. Hassinin and H. Hausner and A. Heggestuen and A. Hergenhan and M. Hernandez-Morquecho and P. Holanda and B. Howard and R. Howell and Z. Hulcher and I. Ingratta and M. S. Ismail and C. James and W. Jang and R. S. Jones and M. Jung and T. Junk and Y. -J. Jwa and D. Kalra and G. Karagiorgi and L. Kashur and K. J. Kelly and W. Ketchum and J. S. Kim and M. King and J. Klein and D. -H. Koh and L. Kotsiopoulou and T. Kroupova and V. A. Kudryavtsev and V. do Lago Pimentel and N. Lane and J. Larkin and H. Lay and R. LaZur and J. -Y. Li and Y. Li and K. Lin and B. R. Littlejohn and L. Liu and W. C. Louis and X. Lu and X. Luo and A. Machado and P. Machado and C. Mariani and F. Marinho and C. M. Marshall and J. Marshall and C. Martin-Morales and S. Martynenko and A. Mastbaum and N. Mauri and K. Mavrokoridis and N. McConkey and B. McCusker and K. S. McFarland and J. Mclaughlin and A. Menegolli and G. Meng and O. G. Miranda and A. Mogan and N. Moggi and E. Montagna and A. Montanari and C. Montanari and M. Mooney and A. F. Moor and G. Moreno-Granados and H. Da Motta and C. A. Moura and J. Mueller and S. Mulleriababu and M. Murphy and D. P. Mendez and D. Naples and A. Navrer-Agasson and M. Nebot-Guinot and V. C. L. Nguyen and F. J. Nicolas-Arnaldos and L. Di Noto and J. Nowak and S. B. Oh and N. Oza and O. Palamara and S. Palestini and N. Pallat and M. Pallavicini and V. Pandey and V. Paolone and A. Papadopoulou and H. B. Parkinson and L. Pasqualini and J. Paton and L. Patrizii and L. Paulucci and Z. Pavlovic and D. Payne and L. Pelegrina-Gutierrez and O. L. G. Peres and G. Petrillo and C. Petta and V. Pia and F. Pietropaolo and J. Plows and F. Poppi and M. Pozzato and M. L. Pumo and G. Putnam and X. Qian and R. Rajagopalan and A. Rappoldi and G. L. Raselli and P. Ratoff and H. Ray and M. Reggiani-Guzzo and S. Repetto and F. Resnati and A. M. Ricci and A. Roberts and M. Roda and A. de Roeck and J. Romeo-Araujo and M. Rosenberg and M. Ross-Lonergan and M. Rossella and N. Rowe and P. Roy and C. Rubbia and I. Safa and S. Saha and G. Salmoria and S. Samanta and A. Sanchez-Castillo and P. Sanchez-Lucas and A. Scaramelli and D. W. Schmitz and A. Schneider and A. Schukraft and H. Scott and E. Segreto and D. Senadheera and S-H. Seo and F. Sergiampietri and M. Shaevitz and P. Singh and G. Sirri and B. Slater and J. S. Smedley and J. Smith and M. Soares-Nunes and M. Soderberg and S. Soldner-Rembold and J. Spitz and M. Stancari and L. Stanco and J. Stewart and T. Strauss and A. M. Szelc and H. A. Tanaka and M. Tenti and K. Terao and F. Terranova and C. Thorpe and V. Togo and D. Torretta and M. Torti and F. Tortorici and D. Totani and M. Toups and C. Touramanis and R. Triozzi and Y. -T. Tsai and L. Tung and M. Del Tutto and T. Usher and G. A. Valdiviesso and F. Varanini and N. Vardy and S. Ventura and M. Vicenzi and C. Vignoli and L. Wan and R. G. Van de Water and M. Weber and H. Wei and T. Wester and A. White and F. A. Wieler and A. Wilkinson and Z. Williams and P. Wilson and R. J. Wilson and J. Wolfs and T. Wongjirad and A. Wood and E. Worcester and M. Worcester and S. Yadav and E. Yandel and T. Yang and L. Yates and B. Yu and H. Yu and J. Yu and B. Zamorano and A. Zani and A. Vazquez-Ramos and J. Zennamo and J. Zettlemoyer and C. Zhang and S. Zucchelli},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.18861},
year = {2026}
}