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Xenon Signal Denoising via Supervised, Semi-Supervised, and Unsupervised Models

Instrumentation and Detectors 2026-03-31 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment Nuclear Experiment

Abstract

This study presents a denoising algorithm trained using machine learning to improve the energy resolution of a single-phase liquid xenon time projection chamber for neutrinoless double beta decay detection. Supervised, unsupervised, and semi-supervised models are demonstrated to significantly remove noise from simulated measurements while preserving signal information. The supervised model achieves an energy resolution of <1%<1\%, while the semi-supervised models achieve energy resolutions of 1%\sim 1\%, and the unsupervised model performance is 1.5%\sim 1.5\%. This work is evidence that machine learning denoising can improve energy resolution compared to traditional algorithms, even when experimentalists lack perfect a priori knowledge of the signals. Such models provide a realistic path toward next-generation sensitivity in 0νββ0\nu\beta\beta searches.

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@article{arxiv.2603.27005,
  title  = {Xenon Signal Denoising via Supervised, Semi-Supervised, and Unsupervised Models},
  author = {Grant Kendrick Parker and Jason Brodsky and Indra Chakraborty},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.27005},
  year   = {2026}
}

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10 pages, 5 figures

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