We describe a software package, TomOpt, developed to optimise the geometrical layout and specifications of detectors designed for tomography by scattering of cosmic-ray muons. The software exploits differentiable programming for the modeling of muon interactions with detectors and scanned volumes, the inference of volume properties, and the optimisation cycle performing the loss minimisation. In doing so, we provide the first demonstration of end-to-end-differentiable and inference-aware optimisation of particle physics instruments. We study the performance of the software on a relevant benchmark scenarios and discuss its potential applications.

翻译：我们描述了一个名为TomOpt的软件包，该软件专为优化用于宇宙射线μ子散射断层扫描的探测器几何布局与规格而开发。该软件利用可微分编程来模拟μ子与探测器及扫描体积的相互作用、体积属性的推断，以及执行损失最小化的优化循环。通过这种方法，我们首次演示了粒子物理仪器的端到端可微分且具有推断感知的优化。我们在相关基准场景中研究了该软件的性能，并讨论了其潜在应用。