16–20 Jun 2025
THotel, Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy
Europe/Rome timezone

🎙️ End-to-end optimization of a Muon Collider calorimeter

17 Jun 2025, 17:03
20m
T3b

T3b

Parallel talk Hardware & Design 🔀 Hardware & Design

Speaker

Federico Nardi (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

Description

Setup design is a critical aspect of experiment development, particularly in high-energy physics, where decisions influence research trajectories for decades. Within the MODE Collaboration, we aim to generalize Machine Learning methodologies to construct a fully differentiable pipeline for optimizing the geometry of the Muon Collider Electromagnetic Calorimeter.

Our approach leverages Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPMs) for signal generation and Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) for photon reconstruction in the presence of Beam-Induced Background from muon decays. Through automatic differentiation, we integrate these components into a unified framework that enables end-to-end optimization of calorimeter configurations. We present the structure of this pipeline, discuss key generation and reconstruction techniques, and showcase the latest results on proposed geometries.

AI keywords generative models; graph neural networks; automatic differentiation; simulation-based optimization

Primary authors

Federico Nardi (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) Tommaso Dorigo (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) Julien Donini (Université Clermont Auvergne (FR)) Dr Long Chen (University of Kaiserslautern-Landau) Mr Xuan Tung Nguyen (INFN Padova, University of Kaiserslautern-Landau) Alessandro Breccia Enrico Lupi (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) Fredrik Sandin (Lulea Techniska Universitet) Dr Max Aehle (University of Kaiserslautern-Landau) Muhammad Awais (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) Prof. Nicholas R Gauger (University of Kaiserslautern-Landau) Pietro Vischia (Universidad de Oviedo and Instituto de Ciencias y Tecnologías Espaciales de Asturias (ICTEA)) Riccardo Carroccio Kylian Schmidt (KIT) Emanuele Coradin (University of Padova) Jan Kieseler (DESY) Joseph Willmore (INFN Padova) Abhishek Abhishek (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) Ralf Keidel (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, MODE Collaboration)

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