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Electron-Hadron shower discrimination in a liquid argon time projection chamber

Instrumentation and Detectors 2015-06-11 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment
Authors: J. J. Back , G. J. Barker , A. J. Bennieston , S. B. Boyd , B. Morgan , Y. A. Ramachers
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Abstract

By exploiting structural differences between electromagnetic and hadronic showers in a multivariate analysis we present an efficient Electron-Hadron discrimination algorithm for liquid argon time projection chambers, validated using Geant4 simulated data.

Keywords

electron-hadron discrimination liquid argon time projection chamber electromagnetic showers hadronic showers multivariate analysis Geant4

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@article{arxiv.1210.2215,
  title  = {Electron-Hadron shower discrimination in a liquid argon time projection chamber},
  author = {J. J. Back and G. J. Barker and A. J. Bennieston and S. B. Boyd and B. Morgan and Y. A. Ramachers},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.2215},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

11 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in EPJC

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