Differentiable programming for particle physics simulations

23 Aug 2021  ·  Roland Grinis ·

We describe how to apply adjoint sensitivity methods to backward Monte-Carlo schemes arising from simulations of particles passing through matter. Relying on this, we demonstrate derivative based techniques for solving inverse problems for such systems without approximations to underlying transport dynamics. We are implementing those algorithms for various scenarios within a general purpose differentiable programming C++17 library NOA (github.com/grinisrit/noa).

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Computational Physics Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability