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In this review the basic interaction mechanisms of charged and neutral particles are presented. The ionization energy loss of charged particles is fundamental to most particle detectors and is therefore described in more detail. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-10-31 C. Grupen

In general-purpose particle detectors, the particle-flow algorithm may be used to reconstruct a comprehensive particle-level view of the event by combining information from the calorimeters and the trackers, significantly improving the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2021-06-10 Joosep Pata , Javier Duarte , Jean-Roch Vlimant , Maurizio Pierini , Maria Spiropulu

In this paper evidence that the increased response of SiPM sensors to the passage of charged particles is related mainly to Cherenkov light produced in the protection layer is reported. The response and timing properties of sensors with…

The current focus of the CERN program is the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), however, CERN is engaged in long baseline neutrino physics with the CNGS project and supports T2K as recognized CERN RE13, and for good reasons: a number of observed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-29 A. Rubbia

We propose a novel learned keypoint detection method to increase the number of correct matches for the task of non-rigid image correspondence. By leveraging true correspondences acquired by matching annotated image pairs with a specified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Felipe Cadar , Welerson Melo , Vaishnavi Kanagasabapathi , Guilherme Potje , Renato Martins , Erickson R. Nascimento

Ground-level particle detection has recently emerged as an extremely powerful approach to TeV-PeV gamma-ray astronomy. The most successful observatories of this type, HAWC and LHAASO, utilise water-Cherenkov based detector units, housed in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-15 Hazal Goksu , Werner Hofmann , Felix Werner , Fabian Haist , Jim Hinton

We discuss here new, enabling technologies for future photon-based neutrino detectors. These technologies touch nearly every aspect of such detectors: new scintillating materials, new methods of loading isotopes, new photon sensors and…

Particle track reconstruction is the most computationally intensive process in nuclear physics experiments. Traditional algorithms use a combinatorial approach that exhaustively tests track measurements ("hits") to identify those that form…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Polykarpos Thomadakis , Angelos Angelopoulos , Gagik Gavalian , Nikos Chrisochoides

This systematic review focuses on analyzing the use of machine learning techniques for identifying and quantifying analytes in various electrochemical applications, presenting the available applications in the literature. Machine learning…

This work presents a novel approach to water Cherenkov neutrino detector event reconstruction and classification. Three forms of a Convolutional Neural Network have been trained to reject cosmic muon events, classify beam events, and…

Modern machine learning tools offer exciting possibilities to qualitatively change the paradigm for new particle searches. In particular, new methods can broaden the search program by gaining sensitivity to unforeseen scenarios by learning…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-29 Benjamin Nachman

Machine learning (ML) provides a broad spectrum of tools and architectures that enable the transformation of data from simulations and experiments into useful and explainable science, thereby augmenting domain knowledge. Furthermore,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-09-05 Farbod Faraji , Maryam Reza

There has been considerable recent activity applying deep convolutional neural nets (CNNs) to data from particle physics experiments. Current approaches on ATLAS/CMS have largely focussed on a subset of the calorimeter, and for identifying…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-11-30 Wahid Bhimji , Steven Andrew Farrell , Thorsten Kurth , Michela Paganini , Prabhat , Evan Racah

While computer vision has received increasing attention in computer science over the last decade, there are few efforts in applying this to leverage engineering design research. Existing datasets and technologies allow researchers to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Jorgen F. Erichsen , Sampsa Kohtala , Martin Steinert , Torgeir Welo

Using aerogel as radiator and multianode PMTs for photon detection, a proximity focusing Cherenkov ring imaging detector has been constructed and tested in the KEK $\pi$2 beam. The aim is to experimentally study the basic parameters such as…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-01-09 I. Adachi , I. Bizjak , A. Gorisek , T. Iijima , M. Iwamoto , S. Korpar , P. Krizan , R. Pestotnik , M. Staric , A. Stanovnik , T. Sumiyoshi , K. Suzuki , T. Tabata

Deep learning has recently become one of the most popular sub-fields of machine learning owing to its distributed data representation with multiple levels of abstraction. A diverse range of deep learning algorithms are being employed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-12 Rajat Kumar Sinha , Ruchi Pandey , Rohan Pattnaik

Deep neural networks are a powerful technique that have found ample applications in several branches of Physics. In this work, we apply machine learning algorithms to a specific problem of Cosmic Ray Physics: the estimation of the muon…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-10 A. Guillen , A. Bueno , J. M. Carceller , J. C. Martinez-Velazquez , G. Rubio , C. J. Todero Peixoto , P. Sanchez-Lucas

Over the past years, machine learning has emerged as a powerful computational tool to tackle complex problems over a broad range of scientific disciplines. In particular, artificial neural networks have been successfully deployed to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-28 Juan Carrasquilla , Giacomo Torlai

Imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) are sensitive to rare gamma-ray photons, buried in the background of charged cosmic-ray (CR) particles, the flux of which is several orders of magnitude greater. The ability to separate gamma…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-14 Qi Feng , Tony T. Y. Lin

Though being seemingly disparate and with relatively new intersection, high energy nuclear physics and machine learning have already begun to merge and yield interesting results during the last few years. It's worthy to raise the profile of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-14 Wan-Bing He , Yu-Gang Ma , Long-Gang Pang , Huichao Song , Kai Zhou