Use of Deep Learning to Improve the Computational Complexity of Reconstruction Algorithms in High Energy Physics

The optimization of reconstruction algorithms has become a key aspect in the field of experimental particle physics. Since technology has allowed gradually increasing the complexity of the measurements, the amount of data taken that needs to be interpreted has grown as well. This is the case with the LHCb experiment at CERN, where a major upgrade currently undergoing will considerably increase the data processing rate. This has presented the need to search for specific reconstruction techniques that aim to accelerate one of the most time consuming reconstruction algorithms in LHCb, the electromagnetic calorimeter clustering. Together with the use of deep learning techniques and the understanding of the current reconstruction algorithm, we propose a method that decomposes the reconstruction process into small parts that can be formulated as a cellular automaton. This approach is shown to benefit the generalized learning of small convolutional neural network architectures and also simplify the training dataset. Final results applied to a complete LHCb simulation reconstruction are compatible in terms of efficiency, and execute in nearly constant time with independence on the complexity of the data.