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GPU-Accelerated Analytic Simulation of Sparse Signals in Pixelated Time Projection Detector

Instrumentation and Detectors 2026-02-13 v1

Abstract

This paper presents a GPU-accelerated simulation package, TRED, for next-generation neutrino detectors with pixelated charge readout, leveraging community-driven software ecosystems to ensure sustainability and extensibility. We introduce two generic contributions: (i) an effective-charge calculation based on Gaussian quadrature rules for numerical integration, and (ii) a sparse, block-binned tensor representation that enables efficient FFT-based computation of induced signals on readout electrodes for sparsely activated detector volumes. The former captures sub-grid structure without requiring dense sampling, while the latter achieves low memory usage and scalable runtime, as demonstrated in benchmark studies. The underlying data representation is applicable to large-scale detectors and to other computational problems involving sparse activity.

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@article{arxiv.2602.12052,
  title  = {GPU-Accelerated Analytic Simulation of Sparse Signals in Pixelated Time Projection Detector},
  author = {Yousen Zhang and Brett Viren and Mary Bishai and Sergey Martynenko and Xin Qian and Rado Razakamiandra and Brooke Russell},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.12052},
  year   = {2026}
}

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12 pages, 12 figures

R2 v1 2026-07-01T10:33:52.505Z