Quantum algorithms for charged particle track reconstruction in the LUXE experiment

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The LUXE experiment is a new experiment in planning in Hamburg, which will study Quantum Electrodynamics at the strong-field frontier.

• LUXE intends to measure the positron production rate in this unprecedented regime by using, among others, a silicon tracking detector.
• The large number of expected positrons traversing the sensitive detector layers results in an extremely challenging combinatorial problem, which can become computationally expensive for classical computers.
• This paper investigates the potential future use of gate-based quantum computers for pattern recognition in track reconstruction.