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The development of a 3-dimensional simulation for Cherenkov photon emissions in Extensive Air Showers (EAS) is reported in this paper. CORSIKA is the most widely used Monte-Carlo generator for the description of EAS, but it is not…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-13 João Espadanal , Patrícia Gonçalves

Generative modeling is a promising task for near-term quantum devices, which can use the stochastic nature of quantum measurements as a random source. So called Born machines are purely quantum models and promise to generate probability…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-23 Oriel Kiss , Michele Grossi , Enrique Kajomovitz , Sofia Vallecorsa

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), conceived as an array of tens of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs), is an international project for a next-generation ground-based gamma-ray observatory, aiming to improve on the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-14 Tjark Miener , Daniel Nieto , Aryeh Brill , Samuel Spencer , Jose Luis Contreras

We have studied the distribution patterns of lateral density, arrival time and angular position of Cherenkov photons generated in Extensive Air Showers (EASs) initiated by $\gamma$-ray, proton and iron primaries incident with various…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-15 G. S. Das , P. Hazarika , U. D. Goswami

Variational autoencoders employ an encoding neural network to generate a probabilistic representation of a data set within a low-dimensional space of latent variables followed by a decoding stage that maps the latent variables back to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-04-13 David Yevick

We present a sophisticated likelihood reconstruction algorithm for shower-image analysis of imaging Cherenkov telescopes. The reconstruction algorithm is based on the comparison of the camera pixel amplitudes with the predictions from a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 S. Vincent

Atmospheric \v{C}erenkov Technique is an established methodology to study $TeV$ energy gamma rays. However the challenging problem has always been the poor signal to noise ratio due to the presence of abundant cosmic rays. Several ingenious…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 V. R. Chitnis , P. N. Bhat

The discrepancies in the results produced by the two most commonly used Monte Carlo programs for simulation of propagation of ultra-high energy cosmic ray photons in the presence of the geomagnetic field are presented. Although photons have…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-10 P. Homola , M. Rygielski

On the time scales accessible to atomistic numerical modelling, chemical reactions are considered rare events. Atomistic simulations are typically biased along a low-dimensional representation of a chemical reaction in an atomic structure…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-03-16 Martin Šípka , Andreas Erlebach , Lukáš Grajciar

The simulation of atmospheric showers through Monte-Carlo processes as well as their projection into Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACT) is long and very computing intensive. As these simulations are the most advanced ones from…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-15 Thomas Vuillaume , Florian Gaté , Gilles Maurin , Jean Jacquemier , Giovanni Lamanna

Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) detect very-high-energy gamma rays from ground level by capturing the Cherenkov light of the induced particle showers. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can be trained on IACT camera…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-01 J. Aschersleben , T. T. H. Arnesen , R. F. Peletier , M. Vecchi , C. Vlasakidis , M. H. F. Wilkinson

Multi-sample, importance-weighted variational autoencoders (IWAE) give tighter bounds and more accurate uncertainty estimates than variational autoencoders (VAE) trained with a standard single-sample objective. However, IWAEs scale poorly:…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-01-18 Laurence Aitchison

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

We present a family of conditional dual auto-encoders (CoDAEs) for generic and model-independent new physics searches at colliders. New physics signals, which arise from new types of particles and interactions, are considered in our study…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-09-25 Luca Anzalone , Simranjit Singh Chhibra , Benedikt Maier , Nadezda Chernyavskaya , Maurizio Pierini

We propose a single neural probabilistic model based on variational autoencoder that can be conditioned on an arbitrary subset of observed features and then sample the remaining features in "one shot". The features may be both real-valued…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-07-01 Oleg Ivanov , Michael Figurnov , Dmitry Vetrov

In a given scene, humans can often easily predict a set of immediate future events that might happen. However, generalized pixel-level anticipation in computer vision systems is difficult because machine learning struggles with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-28 Jacob Walker , Carl Doersch , Abhinav Gupta , Martial Hebert

The hunt for cosmic TeV particle accelerators is prospering through Imaging Atmospheric Cerenkov Telescopes. We face challenges such as low light levels and MHz trigger rates, and the need to distinguish between particle air showers…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. M. Bradbury

Monte Carlo event generators are in a modern terminology the digital twins of collider-based particle physics experiment. We give an introduction into the application of MC generators for particle physics, discuss their different components…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-29 Jürgen Reuter

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) represents the next generation of ground based instruments for Very High Energy gamma-ray astronomy. It is expected to improve on the sensitivity of current instruments by an order of magnitude and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 T. Hassan , L. Arrabito , K. Bernlör , J. Bregeon , J. Hinton , T. Jogler , G. Maier , A. Moralejo , F. Di Pierro , M. Wood

Usually the Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes, used for the ground-based gamma-ray astronomy in the very high energy range 50 GeV - 50 TeV, perform air shower observations till the zenith angle of ~60 deg. Beyond that limit the…