Patent ID: 8957388
Filing Date: 2015-02-17
Classification: G01T

Abstract:
1. A method for reducing background noise in a particle collider, said method comprising: identifying an interaction point among a plurality of particles within a particle collider associated with a detector element; defining a trigger start time for each of at least one pixel as a time taken for light to travel from said interaction point to said at least one pixel and a trigger stop time as a selected time after said trigger start time; collecting only detections that occur between said start trigger time and said stop trigger time; counting a total number of hadronic vertices according to a pattern recognition technique; estimating a missing hadronic energy according to said total number of hadronic vertices; and deriving a calibration constant associated with said total number of hadronic vertices in order to thereafter compensate a result from said particle collider to reduce unwanted background detection.