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We have developed a convolutional neural network (CNN) to reconstruct the shape of irregular rough particles from their interferometric images. The CNN is based on a UNET architecture with residual block modules. The database has been…

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When electrons with energies of $O(100)$ MeV pass through a liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC), they deposit energy in the form of electromagnetic showers. Methods to reconstruct the energy of these showers in LArTPCs often rely…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-02-23 Kiara Carloni , Nicholas W. Kamp , Austin Schneider , Janet M. Conrad

The ANTARES telescope is being built in the Mediterranean Sea. The detector consists of a 3D array of photomultipliers (PMTs) that detects the Cherenkov light induced by the muons produced in neutrino interactions. Other signatures can also…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 J. A. Aguilar

The ANTARES neutrino telescope is presently being built in the Mediterranean Sea at a depth of 2500 m. The primary aim of the experiment is the detection of high energy cosmic muon neutrinos, which are identified by the muons that are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 S. Mangano

The precise reconstruction of properties of photons and electrons in modern high energy physics detectors, such as the CMS or Atlas experiments, plays a crucial role in numerous physics results. Conventional geometrical algorithms are used…

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Data on neutrino oscillation often involve reconstructed neutrino energies while the analysis implies the real neutrino energy. The corrections corresponding to the transformation from real to reconstructed energy are discussed in the case…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-12 M. Martini , M. Ericson , G. Chanfray

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been widely applied in the computer vision community to solve complex problems in image recognition and analysis. We describe an application of the CNN technology to the problem of identifying…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-09-07 A. Aurisano , A. Radovic , D. Rocco , A. Himmel , M. D. Messier , E. Niner , G. Pawloski , F. Psihas , A. Sousa , P. Vahle

Arrays of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACT) are superb instruments to probe the very-high-energy gamma-ray sky. This type of telescope focuses the Cherenkov light emitted from air showers, initiated by very-high-energy gamma…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-20 D. Nieto , T. Miener , A. Brill , J. L. Contreras , T. B. Humensky , R. Mukherjee

The Major Atmospheric Gamma Imaging Cherenkov (MAGIC) telescope system consists of two imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) and is located on the Canary island of La Palma. IACTs are excellent tools to inspect the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-06 T. Miener , R. López-Coto , J. L. Contreras , J. G. Green , D. Green , E. Mariotti , D. Nieto , L. Romanato , S. Yadav

Many of the yet unanswered questions in neutrino physics, such as CP violation in the lepton sector or neutrino mass hierarchy, could be answered with higher sensitivity neutrino experiments. New photodetectors based on micro-channel plates…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-10-11 Ioana Anghel

In the framework of three-active-neutrino mixing, the charge parity phase, the neutrino mass ordering, and the octant of $\theta_{23}$ remain unknown. The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is a next-generation long-baseline…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-12-15 Junze Liu , Jordan Ott , Julian Collado , Benjamin Jargowsky , Wenjie Wu , Jianming Bian , Pierre Baldi

There is a growing interest in very long baseline neutrino oscillation experimentation using accelerator produced neutrino beam as a machinery to probe the last three unmeasured neutrino oscillation parameters: the mixing angle theta_13,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2013-05-29 Chiaki Yanagisawa , Chang Kee Jung , Trung Le , Brett Viren

In neutrino experiments, neutrino energy reconstruction is crucial because neutrino oscillations and differential cross-sections are functions of neutrino energy. It is also challenging due to the complexity in the detector response and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-01-30 Pierre Baldi , Jianming Bian , Lars Hertel , Lingge Li

The proposed SCORE detector consists of a large array of light collecting modules designed to sample the Cherenkov light front of extensive air showers in order to detect high energy gamma-rays. A large spacing of the detector stations…

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In the effort to obtain a precise measurement of leptonic CP-violation with the ESS$\nu$SB experiment, accurate and fast reconstruction of detector events plays a pivotal role. In this work, we examine the possibility of replacing the…

Large machine learning models based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) with rapidly increasing number of parameters, trained with massive amounts of data, are being deployed in a wide array of computer vision tasks from self-driving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Rishab Parthasarathy , Rohan Bhowmik

We propose a new sequential classification model for astronomical objects based on a recurrent convolutional neural network (RCNN) which uses sequences of images as inputs. This approach avoids the computation of light curves or difference…

A water \v{C}erenkov detector project, of megaton scale, to be installed in the Fr\'ejus underground site and dedicated to nucleon decay, neutrinos from supernovae, solar and atmospheric neutrinos, as well as neutrinos from a super-beam…

The KM3NeT Collaboration has successfully deployed its first detection units in the Mediterranean Sea in December 2015 (ARCA) and September 2017 (ORCA). The sample of data collected between September 2016 and March 2017 has been used to…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-01-06 Piotr Kalaczyński , Rosa Coniglione

The complex events observed at the NOvA long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment contain vital information for understanding the most elusive particles in the standard model. The NOvA detectors observe interactions of neutrinos from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Alexander Shmakov , Alejandro Yankelevich , Jianming Bian , Pierre Baldi