English
Related papers

Related papers: Application of Bayes' theorem for pulse shape disc…

200 papers

Traditionally, neutron-$\gamma$ discrimination in organic scintillators relies on techniques such as time-of-flight (ToF) selection and pulse-shape discrimination (PSD). However, particle identification through graphical cuts remains…

With the development of high-speed readout electronics, the digital pulse shape discrimination (PSD) methods have attracted the attention of more researchers, especially in the field of high energy physics and neutron detection. How to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-04-22 Jingjun Wen , Jinfu Zhu , Tao Xue , Jirong Cang , Liangjun Wei , Qiyuan Nie , Ming Zeng , Zhi Zeng , Hao Ma , Jianmin Li , Yinong Liu

Uncertainty quantification for image data is dominated by complex deep learning methods, yet the field lacks an interpretable, mathematically grounded baseline. We propose Bayesian scattering to fill this gap, serving as a first-step…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Bernardo Fichera , Zarko Ivkovic , Kjell Jorner , Philipp Hennig , Viacheslav Borovitskiy

Digitization of detector signals enables analysis of the original waveform to extract timing, particle identification, and energy deposition information. Here we present the use of analytical functions based on sigmoids to model and fit…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-01-23 F. Q. L Friesen , C. R. Howell

Scintillators with pulse-shape discrimination (PSD) capability are of great interest to many fields in the scientific community. The ability to discern a gamma ray from a neutron using PSD varies between different types of scintillator…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-11-18 M. I. Pinilla-Orjuela , K. E. Mesick , P. F. Bloser , J. R. Tutt

We show how to obtain a Bayesian estimate of the rates or numbers of signal and background events from a set of events when the shapes of the signal and background distributions are known, can be estimated, or approximated; our method works…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Will M. Farr , Jonathan R. Gair , Ilya Mandel , Curt Cutler

Many scintillator based detectors employ a set of photomultiplier tubes (PMT) to observe the scintillation light from potential signal and background events. It is important to be able to count the number of photoelectrons (PE) in the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-10-30 Kolahal Bhattacharya , Christopher Jackson

In this paper we propose a bayesian approach for near-duplicate image detection, and investigate how different probabilistic models affect the performance obtained. The task of identifying an image whose metadata are missing is often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Lucas Moutinho Bueno , Eduardo Valle , Ricardo da Silva Torres

Small-angle scattering (SAS) techniques, which utilize neutrons and X-rays, are employed in various scientific fields, including materials science, biochemistry, and polymer physics. During the analysis of SAS data, model parameters that…

Pulse shape discrimination (PSD) is widely used in particle and nuclear physics. Specifically in liquid scintillator detectors, PSD facilitates the classification of different particle types based on their energy deposition patterns. This…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-04-23 Jie Cheng , Xiao-Jie Luo , Gao-Song Li , Yu-Feng Li , Ze-Peng Li , Hao-Qi Lu , Liang-Jian Wen , Michael Wurm , Yi-Yu Zhang

While particle trajectories encode information on their governing potentials, potentials can be challenging to robustly extract from trajectories. Measurement errors may corrupt a particle's position, and sparse sampling of the potential…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2022-02-08 J. Shepard Bryan , Prithviraj Basak , John Bechhoefer , Steve Presse

Pulse shape discrimination in liquid scintillator detectors is a well-established technique for the discrimination of heavy particles from light particles. Nonetheless, it is not efficient in the separation of electrons and positrons, as…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-16 S. Perasso , G. Consolati , D. Franco , S. Hans , C. Jollet , A. Meregaglia , A. Tonazzo , M. Yeh

In this article, we propose a novel method for sampling potential functions based on noisy observation data of a finite number of observables in quantum canonical ensembles, which leads to the accurate sampling of a wide class of test…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-08 Ziheng Chen , Zhennan Zhou

Ultrafast dynamical processes in photoexcited molecules can be observed with pump-probe measurements, in which information about the dynamics is obtained from the transient signal associated with the excited state. Background signals…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-06-11 M. Rumetshofer , P. Heim , B. Thaler , W. E. Ernst , M. Koch , W. von der Linden

We present a powerful new algorithm that combines both spatial information (event locations and the point spread function) and spectral information (photon energies) to separate photons from overlapping sources. We use Bayesian statistical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-06 David E. Jones , Vinay L. Kashyap , David A. van Dyk

A VME-based experiment system for n-{\gamma} discrimination using the charge comparison method was established. A data acquisition program for controlling the programmable modules and processing data online via VME64X bus was developed…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-17 Yonghao Chen , Ximeng Chen , Xiaodong Zhang , Jiarong Lei , Li An , Jianxiong Shao , Pu Zheng , Xinhua Wang , Chuanxin Zhu , Tie He , Jian Yang

The study of almost surely discrete random probability measures is an active line of research in Bayesian nonparametrics. The idea of assuming interaction across the atoms of the random probability measure has recently spurred significant…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-25 Mario Beraha , Raffaele Argiento , Federico Camerlenghi , Alessandra Guglielmi

We present a Bayesian data fusion method to approximate a posterior distribution from an ensemble of particle estimates that only have access to subsets of the data. Our approach relies on approximate probabilistic inference of model…

Computation · Statistics 2020-10-28 Caleb Miller , Michael D. Schneider , Jem N. Corcoran , Jason Bernstein

A nonparametric Bayesian approach is developed to determine quantum potentials from empirical data for quantum systems at finite temperature. The approach combines the likelihood model of quantum mechanics with a priori information over…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. C. Lemm , J. Uhlig , A. Weiguny

There have been many reports of non-statistical effects in neutron-capture measurements. However, reports of deviations of reduced-neutron-width distributions from the expected Porter-Thomas (PT) shape largely have been ignored. Most of…