Suppression of $^{14}\mathrm{C}$ photon hits in large liquid scintillator detectors via spatiotemporal deep learning
Liquid scintillator detectors are widely used in neutrino experiments due to their low energy threshold and high energy resolution. Despite the tiny abundance of $^{14}$C in LS, the photons induced by the $β$ decay of the $^{14}$C isotope inevitably contaminate the signal, degrading the energy resolution. In this work, we propose three models to tag $^{14}$C photon hits in $e^+$ events with $^{14}$C pile-up, thereby suppressing its impact on the energy resolution at the hit level: a gated spatiotemporal graph neural network and two Transformer-based models with scalar and vector charge encoding. For a simulation dataset in which each event contains one $^{14}$C and one $e^+$ with kinetic energy below 5 MeV, the models achieve $^{14}$C recall rates of 25%-48% while maintaining $e^+$ to $^{14}$C misidentification below 1%, leading to a large improvement in the resolution of total charge for events where $e^+$ and $^{14}$C photon hits strongly overlap in space and time.
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