LUCiD: end-to-end differentiable optical detector simulation (water Cherenkov, WbLS, neutrino telescopes)
LUCiD: end-to-end differentiable optical simulation of water Cherenkov detectors
JAX-based differentiable simulation of optical photon emission, propagation, scattering and PMT response for gradient-based calibration and track reconstruction; used to produce the WAND public water-Cherenkov dataset.
Get it
| Location | Role | Host | Formats | Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| https://github.com/CIDeR-ML/LUCiD | primary | GitHub | ||
| https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.24129 | documentation | arXiv ancillary files |
Metadata
| Licence | Unknown stated in repo (type not parsed) |
|---|---|
| Access | Open |
| Purpose | Detector simulation |
| Development | unknown |
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Papers
- arXiv:2602.24129 (describes)
Curation
| Status | Curated (candidate: harvested, not reviewed · curated: reviewed metadata · verified: resource downloaded and checked against its paper) |
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| Added | 2026-10-23 |
| Curator notes | • found by targeted web search; verified: Read GitHub README. • WAND dataset itself (talk at NPML 2026, arXiv:2609.00611) - public download location not found. |