Reconstruction of interactions in the ProtoDUNE-SP detector with Pandora

0582457 - FZÚ 2024 RIV DE eng J - Journal Article
Abed Abud, A. - Abi, B. - Acciarri, R. - Filip, Peter - Kvasnička, Jiří - Lokajíček, Miloš - Pěč, Viktor - Zálešák, Jaroslav - Zuklín, Josef … Total 1227 authors
Reconstruction of interactions in the ProtoDUNE-SP detector with Pandora.
European Physical Journal C. Roč. 83, č. 7 (2023), č. článku 618. ISSN 1434-6044. E-ISSN 1434-6052
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT LTT18001
Institutional support: RVO:68378271
Keywords : neutrino detectors * time projection chambers * DUNE * ProtoDUNE-SP
OECD category: Particles and field physics
Impact factor: 4.4, year: 2022
Method of publishing: Open access

The Pandora Software Development Kit and algorithm libraries provide pattern-recognition logic essential to the reconstruction of particle interactions in liquid argon time projection chamber detectors. Pandora is the primary event reconstruction software used at ProtoDUNE-SP, a prototype for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment far detector. ProtoDUNE-SP, located at CERN, is exposed to a charged-particle test beam. This paper gives an overview of the Pandora reconstruction algorithms and how they have been tailored for use at ProtoDUNE-SP. In complex events with numerous cosmic-ray and beam background particles, the simulated reconstruction and identification efficiency for triggered test-beam particles is above 80% for the majority of particle type and beam momentum combinations. Specifically, simulated 1 GeV/c charged pions and protons are correctly reconstructed and identified with efficiencies of 86.1±0.6±0.6% and 84.1±0.6±0.6%, respectively.
Permanent Link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0350967