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Ground-based gamma-ray astronomy experienced a major boost with the advent of the present generation of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) in the past decade. Photons of energies >~ 0.1 TeV are a very useful tool in the study…

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The next generation of observatories will facilitate the discovery of new types of astrophysical transients. The detection of such phenomena, whose characteristics are presently poorly constrained, will hinge on the ability to perform blind…

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Detecting cosmic gamma rays at high rates is the key to time-resolve the acceleration of particles within some of the most powerful events in the universe. Time-resolving the emission of gamma rays from merging celestial bodies, apparently…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-12 Sebastian Achim Mueller , Spyridon Daglas , Axel Arbet Engels , Max Ludwig Ahnen , Dominik Neise , Adrian Egger , Eleni Chatzi , Adrian Biland , Werner Hofmann

In gamma ray astronomy with Cherenkov telescopes, machine learning models are needed to guess what kind of particles generated the detected light, and their energies and directions. The focus in this work is on the classification task,…

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The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the future observatory for ground-based imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes. Each telescope will provide a snapshot of gamma-ray induced particle showers by capturing the induced Cherenkov…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-24 J. Aschersleben , M. Vecchi , M. H. F. Wilkinson , R. F. Peletier

Imaging Cherenkov detectors are largely used in modern nuclear and particle physics experiments where cutting-edge solutions are needed to face always more growing computing demands. This is a fertile ground for AI-based approaches and at…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-06-11 Cristiano Fanelli

In recent years, ground-based very-high-energy (VHE; E>100 GeV) gamma-ray astronomy has experienced a major breakthrough with the impressive astrophysical results obtained mainly by the current generation experiments like H.E.S.S., MAGIC,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 R. M. Wagner , E. J. Lindfors , A. Sillanpää , S. Wagner

Telescopes -- far seeing -- have since centuries revealed insights to objects at cosmic distances. Adopted for gamma-ray-astronomy, ground based Cherenkov-telescopes image the faint Cherenkov-light of air-showers induced by cosmic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-01 Sebastian Achim Mueller

Gamma-ray photons can convert into axion-like particles (ALPs) and vice versa when interacting with astrophysical magnetic fields. The conversions of ALPs may have important implications for astrophysics since they would imprint…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-05-02 Miguel A. Sanchez-Conde , Stefan Funk , Frank Krennrich , Amanda Weinstein

With the great promise of deep learning, discoveries of new particles at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) may be imminent. Following the discovery of a new Beyond the Standard model particle in an all-hadronic channel, deep learning can also…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-30 Jakub Filipek , Shih-Chieh Hsu , John Kruper , Kirtimaan Mohan , Benjamin Nachman

During the last two decades Gamma-Ray Astronomy has emerged as a powerful tool to study cosmic ray physics. In fact, photons are not deviated by galactic or extragalactic magnetic fields so their directions bring the information of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-24 Giuseppe Di Sciascio

Deep learning algorithms offer a powerful means to automatically analyze the content of medical images. However, many biological samples of interest are primarily transparent to visible light and contain features that are difficult to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-22 Roarke Horstmeyer , Richard Y. Chen , Barbara Kappes , Benjamin Judkewitz

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the next generation of ground based gamma-ray telescopes allowing us to study very high energy phenomena in the Universe. CTA aims to gain about a factor of ten in sensitivity compared to current…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-23 S. Mangano

With the development of the Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Technique (IACT), Gamma-ray astronomy has become one of the most interesting and productive fields of astrophysics. Current IACT telescope arrays (MAGIC, H.E.S.S, VERITAS) use…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-04 D. Guberman , J. Cortina , J. E. Ward , A. Hahn , D. Mazin , J. Boix , A. Dettlaff , D. Fink , J. Gaweda , W. Haberer , J. Illa , J. Mundet , Y. Vera , H. Wetteskind

Gamma-ray astronomy from hundreds of GeV to PeV is confined to ground-based experiments that detect air showers induced by $\gamma$-rays entering Earth's atmosphere. While particle detector arrays feature huge detection areas, accurately…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-13 Markus Pirke , Youngwan Son , Jonas Glombitza , Martin Schneider , Ian James Watson , Christopher van Eldik

We consider a machine learning algorithm to detect and identify strong gravitational lenses on sky images. First, we simulate different artificial but very close to reality images of galaxies, stars and strong lenses, using six different…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-06 H. G. Khachatryan

The last 20 years have seen the development of new techniques in Astroparticle Physics providing access to the highest end of the electromagnetic spectrum. It has been shown that some sources emit photons up to energies close to 100 TeV.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-04 J. L. Contreras , J. Rosado , F. Arqueros , M. López , J. A. Barrio , M. Nievas

As we enter the era of large-scale imaging surveys with the up-coming telescopes such as LSST and SKA, it is envisaged that the number of known strong gravitational lensing systems will increase dramatically. However, these events are still…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-14 Daniel Magro , Kristian Zarb Adami , Andrea DeMarco , Simone Riggi , Eva Sciacca

The success of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) in image classification has prompted efforts to study their use for classifying image data obtained in Particle Physics experiments. Here, we discuss our efforts to apply CNNs to 2D and 3D…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-12-08 Venkitesh Ayyar , Wahid Bhimji , Lisa Gerhardt , Sally Robertson , Zahra Ronaghi

A Convolutional Neural Network architecture was used to classify various isotopes of time-sequenced gamma-ray spectra, a typical output of a radiation detection system of a type commonly fielded for security or environmental measurement…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-08-30 Eric T. Moore , William P. Ford , Emma J. Hague , Johanna Turk