Machine Learning Accelerated Likelihood-Free Event Reconstruction in Dark Matter Direct Detection

10/23/2018
by   U. Simola, et al.
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Reconstructing the position of an interaction for any dual-phase time projection chamber (TPC) with the best precision is key to directly detect Dark Matter. Using the likelihood-free framework, a new algorithm to reconstruct the 2-D (x; y) position and the size of the charge signal (e) of an interaction is presented. The algorithm uses the charge signal (S2) light distribution obtained by simulating events using a waveform generator. To deal with the computational effort required by the likelihood-free approach, we employ the Bayesian Optimization for Likelihood-Free Inference (BOLFI) algorithm. Together with BOLFI, prior distributions for the parameters of interest (x; y; e) and highly informative discrepancy measures to perform the analyses are introduced. We evaluate the quality of the proposed algorithm by a comparison against the currently existing alternative methods using a large-scale simulation study. BOLFI provides a natural probabilistic uncertainty measure for the reconstruction and it improved the accuracy of the reconstruction over the next best algorithm by up to 15 cm). In addition, BOLFI provides the smallest uncertainties among all the tested methods.

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