Aug 12 – 13, 2026
Laurentian University
Canada/Eastern timezone

When Signals Go Dark: Recovering Information From a Broken Detector

Aug 12, 2026, 3:36 PM
12m
C-203 (Laurentian University)

C-203

Laurentian University

Session I Presentations

Speaker

Simon Cao (University of Toronto)

Description

In the Super Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (SuperCDMS), we use machine learning algorithms to predict meaningful physical quantities, such as position and energy, from the signals produced by a particle detection event. However, many detectors are broken, resulting in incomplete data. We show that it is still possible to predict physical information about events recorded by a broken detector, bringing data previously thought useless into a new light.

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Author

Simon Cao (University of Toronto)

Co-authors

Dr Madeleine Zurowski (Department of Physics, University of Toronto) Prof. Pekka Sinervo (Department of Physics, University of Toronto) Mr Warren Perry (Department of Physics, University of Toronto)

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