# Vision Calorimeter for Anti-neutron Reconstruction: A Baseline

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.10599 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2408.10599/

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- First posted on arXiv 20 Aug 2024.

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## Abstract (arXiv)

In high-energy physics, anti-neutrons (barn) are fundamental particles that frequently appear as final-state particles, and the reconstruction of their kinematic properties provides an important probe for understanding the governing principles. However, this confronts significant challenges instrumentally with the electromagnetic calorimeter (EMC), a typical experimental sensor but recovering the information of incident barn insufficiently. In this study, we introduce Vision Calorimeter (ViC), a baseline method for anti-neutron reconstruction that leverages deep learning detectors to analyze the implicit relationships between EMC responses and incident barn characteristics. Our motivation lies in that energy distributions of barn samples deposited in the EMC cell arrays embody rich contextual information. Converted to 2-D images, such contextual energy distributions can be used to predict the status of barn (i.e., incident position and momentum) through a deep learning detector along with pseudo bounding boxes and a specified training objective. Experimental results demonstrate that ViC substantially outperforms the conventional reconstruction approach, reducing the prediction error of incident position by 42.81% (from 17.31circ to 9.90circ). More importantly, this study for the first time realizes the measurement of incident barn momentum, underscoring the potential of deep learning detectors for particle reconstruction. Code is available at https://github.com/yuhongtian17/ViC.