Rejecting noise in Baikal-GVD data with neural networks

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• github.com/ml-inr/baikal-gvd-noise-rejection
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Abstract

Baikal-GVD is a large (1 km^3) underwater neutrino telescope installed in the fresh waters of Lake Baikal. The deep lake water environment is pervaded by background light, which is detectable by Baikal-GVD's photosensors. We introduce a neural network for an efficient separation of these noise hits from the signal ones, stemming from the propagation of relativistic particles through the detector. The model has a U-net-like architecture and employs temporal (causal) structure of events. The neural network's metrics reach up to 99\% signal purity (precision) and 96\% survival efficiency (recall) on Monte-Carlo simulated dataset. We compare the developed method with the algorithmic approach to rejecting the noise and discuss other possible architectures of neural networks, including graph-based ones.

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