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We report on an hybrid in-beam PET and prompt-gamma Compton imaging system aimed at quasi real-time ion-range verification in proton-therapy treatments. Proof-of-concept experiments were carried out at the radiobiology beam line of the CNA…

Acquiring labels are often costly, whereas unlabeled data are usually easy to obtain in modern machine learning applications. Semi-supervised learning provides a principled machine learning framework to address such situations, and has been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-04-07 Trung Le , Khanh Nguyen , Van Nguyen , Vu Nguyen , Dinh Phung

The ensemble Gaussian mixture filter (EnGMF) is a non-linear filter suited to data assimilation of highly non-Gaussian and non-linear models that has practical utility in the case of a small number of samples, and theoretical convergence to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-03 Andrey A. Popov , Enrico M. Zucchelli , Renato Zanetti

Gaussian processes (GPs) have been extensively utilized as nonparametric models for component separation in 21 cm data analyses. This exploits the distinct spectral behavior of the cosmological and foreground signals, which are modeled…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-13 Kangning Diao , Richard D. P. Grumitt , Yi Mao

This paper considers the problem of networks reconstruction from heterogeneous data using a Gaussian Graphical Mixture Model (GGMM). It is well known that parameter estimation in this context is challenging due to large numbers of variables…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-10-08 Anani Lotsi , Ernst Wit

We demonstrate the use of a convolutional neural network to perform neutron-gamma pulse shape discrimination, where the only inputs to the network are the raw digitised SiPM signals from a dual scintillator detector element made of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-07-19 J. Griffiths , S. Kleinegesse , D. Saunders , R. Taylor , A. Vacheret

Machine learning (ML) techniques have been demonstrated to improve the accuracy and efficiency of anomaly detection (AD) when compared to conventional methods. This has led to the adoption of ML for data quality monitoring (DQM) use cases…

We develop a framework to establish benchmarks for machine learning and deep neural networks analyses of exclusive scattering cross sections (FemtoNet). Within this framework we present an extraction of Compton form factors for deeply…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-25 Manal Almaeen , Jake Grigsby , Joshua Hoskins , Brandon Kriesten , Yaohang Li , Huey-Wen Lin , Simonetta Liuti

The neutrons emitted in heavy-ion fusion-evaporation (HIFE) reactions together with the gamma-rays cause unwanted backgrounds in gamma-ray spectra. Especially in the nuclear reactions, where relativistic ion beams (RIBs) are used, these…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-09-02 Serkan Akkoyun , Tuncay Bayram , S. Okan Kara

GRETA, the Gamma-Ray Energy Tracking Array, is an array of highly-segmented HPGe detectors designed to track {\gamma}-rays emitted in beam-physics experiments. Its high detection efficiency and state-of-the-art position resolution make it…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-07-05 Robert Crabbs , I-Yang Lee , Kai Vetter

A fast forward feature selection algorithm is presented in this paper. It is based on a Gaussian mixture model (GMM) classifier. GMM are used for classifying hyperspectral images. The algorithm selects iteratively spectral features that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-01-06 Mathieu Fauvel , Clement Dechesne , Anthony Zullo , Frédéric Ferraty

Multimodal learning integrates diverse modalities but suffers from modality imbalance, where dominant modalities suppress weaker ones due to inconsistent convergence rates. Existing methods predominantly rely on static modulation or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Zhaocheng Liu , Zhiwen Yu , Xiaoqing Liu

The Compressed Baryonic Matter (CBM) experiment is a part of the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) in Darmstadt at the GSI. The CBM experiment will investigate the highly compressed nuclear matter using nucleus-nucleus…

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We present a maximum likelihood (ML) algorithm that is fast enough to detect gamma-ray transients in real time on low-performance processors often used for space applications. We validate the routine with simulations and find that, relative…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-09 Matthew Kerr , Wade Duvall , Neil Johnson , Richard Woolf , J. Eric Grove , Hannah Kim

Gaussian processes (GP) for machine learning have been studied systematically over the past two decades and they are by now widely used in a number of diverse applications. However, GP kernel design and the associated hyper-parameter…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Feng Yin , Lishuo Pan , Xinwei He , Tianshi Chen , Sergios Theodoridis , Zhi-Quan , Luo

We investigate a Gaussian mixture model (GMM) with component means constrained in a pre-selected subspace. Applications to classification and clustering are explored. An EM-type estimation algorithm is derived. We prove that the subspace…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-08-27 Mu Qiao , Jia Li

Gaseous PhotoMultipliers (GPM) are a very promising alternative of vacuum PMTs especially for large-size noble-liquid detectors in the field of Functional Nuclear Medical Imaging and Direct Dark Matter Detection. We present recent…

The next generation of radioactive ion beam facilities, which will give experimental access to many exotic nuclei, are presently being developed. At the same time the next generation of high resolution gamma-ray spectrometers, based on…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2010-02-17 P. -A. Söderström , A. Al-Adili , J. Nyberg , F. Recchia , E. Farnea , A. Gadea

We apply the matrix element method (MEM) to the search for non-resonant Higgs boson pair ($\textrm{HH}$) production in the channel $\textrm{HH} \to \textrm{b}\bar{\textrm{b}}\textrm{W}\textrm{W}^{*}$ at the LHC and study the separation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-02 Karl Ehatäht , Christian Veelken

Sourceless efficiency calibration of high-purity germanium (HPGe) detectors can provide accurate detector-response information without experiments using radioactive calibration sources, offering advantages in both convenience and safety. In…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-05-26 Kainan Zhang , Shuchang Yan , Zhen Wu , Hui Zhang , Rui Qiu , Junli Li