Heterogeneous Point Set Transformers for Segmentation of Multiple View Particle Detectors

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09659v1
• Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2025 16:00:57 GMT
• Title: Heterogeneous Point Set Transformers for Segmentation of Multiple View Particle Detectors
• Authors: Edgar E. Robles, Dikshant Sagar, Alejandro Yankelevich, Jianming Bian, Pierre Baldi, NOvA Collaboration,
• Abstract summary: NOvA is an experiment that detects neutrino particles from the NuMI beam at Fermilab.<n>Data is presented as two sparse 2D images: an XZ and a YZ view of the detector, rather than a 3D representation.<n>We propose a point set neural network that operates on the sparse matrices with an operation that mixes information from both views.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: NOvA is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment that detects neutrino particles from the NuMI beam at Fermilab. Before data from this experiment can be used in analyses, raw hits in the detector must be matched to their source particles, and the type of each particle must be identified. This task has commonly been done using a mix of traditional clustering approaches and convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Due to the construction of the detector, the data is presented as two sparse 2D images: an XZ and a YZ view of the detector, rather than a 3D representation. We propose a point set neural network that operates on the sparse matrices with an operation that mixes information from both views. Our model uses less than 10% of the memory required using previous methods while achieving a 96.8% AUC score, a higher score than obtained when both views are processed independently (85.4%).

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