Signal-background discrimination with convolutional neural networks in the PandaX-III experiment using MC simulation
英文摘要：
The PandaX-III experiment will search for neutrinoless double beta decay of $^{136}$Xe with high pressure gaseous time projection chambers at the China Jin-Ping underground Laboratory. The tracking feature of gaseous detectors helps suppress the background level, resulting in the improvement of the detection sensitivity. We study a method based on the convolutional neural networks to discriminate double beta decay signals against the background from high energy gammas generated by $^{214}$Bi and $^{208}$Tl decays based on detailed Monte Carlo simulation. Using the 2-dimensional projections of recorded tracks on two planes, the method successfully suppresses the background level by a factor larger than 100 with a high signal efficiency. An improvement of $62\%$ on the efficiency ratio of $ε_{s}/\sqrt{ε_{b}}$ is achieved in comparison with the baseline in the PandaX-III conceptual design report.
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