Studying quantum algorithms for particle track reconstruction in the LUXE experiment

Lena Funcke, Tobias Hartung, Beate Heinemann, Karl Jansen, Annabel Kropf, Stefan Kühn, Federico Meloni, David Spataro, Cenk Tüysüz, Yee Chinn Yap

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Abstract

The LUXE experiment (LASER Und XFEL Experiment) is a new experiment in planning at DESY Hamburg, which will study Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) at the strong-field frontier. In this regime, QED is non-perturbative. This manifests itself in the creation of physical electron-positron pairs from the QED vacuum. LUXE intends to measure the positron production rate in this unprecedented regime by using, among others, a silicon tracking detector. The large number of expected positrons traversing the sensitive detector layers results in an extremely challenging combinatorial problem, which can become computationally very hard for classical computers. This paper presents a preliminary study to explore the potential of quantum computers to solve this problem and to reconstruct the positron trajectories from the detector energy deposits. The reconstruction problem is formulated in terms of a quadratic unconstrained binary optimisation. Finally, the results from the quantum simulations are discussed and compared with traditional classical track reconstruction algorithms.

Original languageEnglish
Article number012127
JournalJournal of Physics: Conference Series
Volume2438
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 31 Dec 2023
Event20th International Workshop on Advanced Computing and Analysis Techniques in Physics Research, ACAT 2021 - Daejeon, Virtual, Korea, Republic of
Duration: 29 Nov 20213 Dec 2021

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
The work by B.H., A.K., F.M., D.S. and Y.Y. was in part funded by the Helmholtz Association - “Innopool Project LUXE-QED”. K.J. and C.T. are supported in part by the Helmholtz Association - “Innopool Project Variational Quantum Computer Simulations (VQCS)”. L.F. is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, National Quantum Information Science Research Centers, Co-design Center for Quantum Advantage (C2QA) under contract number DE-SC0012704, by the DOE QuantiSED Consortium under subcontract number 675352, by the National Science Foundation under Cooperative Agreement PHY-2019786 (The NSF AI Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions, http://iaifi.org/), and by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics under grant contract numbers DE-SC0011090 and DE-SC0021006. S.K. acknowledges financial support from the Cyprus Research and Innovation Foundation under project “Future-proofing Scientific Applications for the Supercomputers of Tomorrow (FAST)”, contract no. COMPLEMENTARY/0916/0048. This work has benefited from computing services provided by the German National Analysis Facility (NAF).

Funding

The work by B.H., A.K., F.M., D.S. and Y.Y. was in part funded by the Helmholtz Association - “Innopool Project LUXE-QED”. K.J. and C.T. are supported in part by the Helmholtz Association - “Innopool Project Variational Quantum Computer Simulations (VQCS)”. L.F. is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, National Quantum Information Science Research Centers, Co-design Center for Quantum Advantage (C2QA) under contract number DE-SC0012704, by the DOE QuantiSED Consortium under subcontract number 675352, by the National Science Foundation under Cooperative Agreement PHY-2019786 (The NSF AI Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions, http://iaifi.org/), and by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics under grant contract numbers DE-SC0011090 and DE-SC0021006. S.K. acknowledges financial support from the Cyprus Research and Innovation Foundation under project “Future-proofing Scientific Applications for the Supercomputers of Tomorrow (FAST)”, contract no. COMPLEMENTARY/0916/0048. This work has benefited from computing services provided by the German National Analysis Facility (NAF).

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Physics and Astronomy

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