17–22 May 2026
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CNN-based arrival time determination in piled-up particle counter signals

WEP6047
20 May 2026, 16:00
2h
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C.I.D

Deauville, France
Poster Presentation MC6.T03: Beam Diagnostics and Instrumentation Poster session

Speaker

Rahul Singh (GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research)

Description

Pulse pile-up limits the count rate, timing precision, and energy resolution of radiation detection systems in accelerator beam instrumentation and downstream experiments. We present the project status of a machine-learning based pile-up recovery system designed for real-time particle counting and time of arrival determination at pulse rates exceeding $10^7$~particles/s. The convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture utilized in this project is trained on labelled scintillator data to identify pulses in the piled-up waveforms. This development is primarily aimed at beam spill characterization at GSI/FAIR using plastic scintillators, however the concept presented is general-purpose and could be applicable to any radiation detector. First model implementation is performed on the FPGA onboard a commercial digitizer and its performance is compared against the single threshold leading-edge discriminator.

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Authors

Rahul Singh (GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research) Tobias Habermann (Fulda University of Applied Sciences)

Co-authors

Dr Martin Kumm (Fulda University of Applied Sciences) Plamen Boutachkov (GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research)

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