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We study the framework of Bayesian statistics for analyzing the capabilities and results of future experiments looking to solve the issue of the neutrino mass ordering. Starting from the general scenario, we then give examples of the…

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Predictions of nuclear properties far from measured data are inherently imprecise because of uncertainties in our knowledge of nuclear forces and in our treatment of quantum many-body effects in strongly-interacting systems. While the model…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-09-14 Rodrigo Navarro Perez , Nicolas Schunck

We report in this paper the proofs that the pulse shape analysis can be used in some bolometers to identify the nature of the interacting particle. Indeed, while detailed analyses of the signal time development in purely thermal detectors…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-05-20 C. Arnaboldi , C. Brofferio , O. Cremonesi , L. Gironi , M. Pavan , G. Pessina , S. Pirro , E. Previtali

Gravitational-wave data analysis demands sophisticated statistical noise models in a bid to extract highly obscured signals from data. In Bayesian model comparison, we choose among a landscape of models by comparing their marginal…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-12 Haochen Wang , Stephen R. Taylor , Michele Vallisneri

Phase estimation protocols provide a fundamental benchmark for the field of quantum metrology. The latter represents one of the most relevant applications of quantum theory, potentially enabling the capability of measuring unknown physical…

Bayesian methods which utilize Bayes' theorem to update the knowledge of desired parameters after each measurement, are used in a wide range of quantum science. For various applications in quantum science, efficiently and accurately…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-02 Chengyin Han , Jiahao Huang , Xunda Jiang , Ruihuan Fang , Yuxiang Qiu , Bo Lu , Chaohong Lee

Capsule networks are a recently proposed type of neural network shown to outperform alternatives in challenging shape recognition tasks. In capsule networks, scalar neurons are replaced with capsule vectors or matrices, whose entries…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Fabio De Sousa Ribeiro , Georgios Leontidis , Stefanos Kollias

In this work, a new neutron and {\gamma}(n/{\gamma}) discrimination method based on an Elman Neural Network (ENN) is proposed to improve the discrimination performance of liquid scintillator (LS) detectors. Neutron and {\gamma} data were…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-08-24 Cai-Xun Zhang , Shin-Ted Lin , Jian-Ling Zhao , Li Wang , Xun-Zhen Yu , Jing-Jun Zhu , Hao-Yang Xing

We analyze atomic photoexcitation into the discrete states by twisted photons, or photons carrying extra orbital angular momentum along their direction of propagation. From the angular momentum and parity considerations, we are able to…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-03-07 Andrei Afanasev , Carl E. Carlson , Maria Solyanik

Pulsars have been primarily detected by their narrow pulses or periodicity in time domain data. Interferometric surveys for pulsars are challenging due to the trade-off between beam sensitivity and beam size and the corresponding tradeoff…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-26 Jitendra Salal , Shriharsh P. Tendulkar , Visweshwar Ram Marthi

The increasing richness of data related to cold dense matter, from laboratory experiments to neutron-star observations, requires a framework for constraining the properties of such matter that makes use of all relevant information. Here, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 M. Coleman Miller , Cecilia Chirenti , Frederick K. Lamb

Extracting Times of Arrival from pulsar radio signals depends on the knowledge of the pulsars pulse profile and how this template is generated. We examine pulsar template generation with Bayesian methods. We will contrast the classical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 M. Imgrund , D. J. Champion , M. Kramer , H. Lesch

In low background and low threshold particle astrophysics experiments using observation of Cherenkov or scintillation light it is common to use pairs or arrays of photomultipliers operated in coincidence. In such circumstances, for instance…

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One of the big challenges in astrophysics is the comparison of complex simulations to observations. As many codes do not directly generate observables (e.g. hydrodynamic simulations), the last step in the modelling process is often a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-08 Frederik Beaujean , Hans C. Eggers , Wolfgang E. Kerzendorf

The periodic injection $n$ of electrons in a quantum conductor using periodic voltage pulses applied on a contact is studied in the energy and time-domain using shot noise computation in order to make comparison with experiments. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-09 Julie Dubois , Jullien Thibaut , Charles Grenier , Pascal Degiovanni , Preden Roulleau , D. C. Glattli

Pressurized Helium-4 (PHe) based fast neutron scintillation detector offers an useful alternative to organic liquid-based scintillator due to its relatively low response to the $\gamma$-rays compared to the latter type of scintillator. In…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-09-04 Shubham Dutta , Sayan Ghosh , Satyajit Saha

A lossless beam-splitter has certain (complex-valued) probability amplitudes for sending an incoming photon into one of two possible directions. We use elementary laws of classical and quantum optics to obtain general relations among the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-27 Masud Mansuripur , Ewan M. Wright

Neutron noise analysis is a predominant technique for fissile matter identification with passive methods. Quantifying the uncertainties associated with the estimated nuclear parameters is crucial for decision-making. A conservative…

Applications · Statistics 2024-10-03 Paul Lartaud , Philippe Humbert , Josselin Garnier

A new double time-of-flight (dTOF) neutron spectroscopy technique has been developed for pulsed broad spectrum sources with a duty cycle that results in frame overlap, where fast neutrons from a given pulse overtake slower neutrons from…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-10-07 K. P. Harrig , B. L. Goldblum , J. A. Brown , D. L. Bleuel , L. A. Bernstein , J. Bevins , M. Harasty , T. A. Laplace , E. F. Matthews

We propose the combination of forward shape derivatives and the use of an iterative inversion scheme for Bayesian optimization to find optimal designs of nanophotonic devices. This approach widens the range of applicability of Bayesian…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-01-12 Xavier Garcia-Santiago , Sven Burger , Carsten Rockstuhl , Philipp-Immanuel Schneider