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，该软件用于优化宇宙射线μ子散射断层扫描探测器的几何布局和规格参数。该软件利用可微编程技术，对μ子与探测器及扫描物体的相互作用、物体属性推断以及执行损失最小化的优化循环进行建模。通过这一方法，我们首次展示了粒子物理仪器端到端可微且推理感知的优化方案。我们通过相关基准场景测试了该软件的性能，并探讨了其潜在应用。