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Environmental neutrons are a source of background for rare event searches in underground laboratories. Since the majority of the neutron background comes from the cavern walls due to the intrinsic radioactivity of concrete and rock, the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-12-11 Francesco Pompa , Klaus Eitel , Alfredo Davide Ferella , Felix Kratzmeier , Melih Solmaz , Kathrin Valerius

A method (Ember) for non-stationary spatial modelling with multiple secondary variables by combining Geostatistics with Random Forests is applied to a three-dimensional Reservoir Model. It extends the Random Forest method to an…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Colin Daly

There is widespread interest in estimating the fluorescence properties of natural materials in an image. However, the separation between reflected and fluoresced components is difficult, because it is impossible to distinguish reflected and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-16 Henryk Blasinski , Joyce Farrell , Brian Wandell

Simplifying the detection procedure and improving the bit error rate (BER) performance of a non-coherent receiver in ambient backscatter is vital for enhancing its ability to function without the channel state information (CSI). In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-27 J. Kartheek Devineni , Harpreet S. Dhillon

Accurate and precise measurements of neutron star radii provide invaluable information about the cold, dense matter in neutron star cores. Analyses of synthetic X-ray pulse waveform data similar to the data obtained from non-accreting…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-24 Isiah M. Holt , M. Coleman Miller , Alexander J. Dittmann , Frederick K. Lamb

Possibilities of discriminating neutrons and gamma rays in the AGATA gamma-ray tracking spectrometer have been investigated with the aim of reducing the background due to inelastic scattering of neutrons in the high-purity germanium…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-09-09 A. Ataç , A. Kaşkaş , S. Akkoyun , M. Şenyiğit , T. Hüyük , S. O. Kara , J. Nyberg

This paper focuses on the non-coherent detection in ambient backscatter communication, which is highly appealing for systems where the trade-off between signaling overhead and the actual data transmission is very critical. Modeling the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-28 J. Kartheek Devineni , Harpreet S. Dhillon

Thermal neutron detector based on films of $^{10}$B$_4$C have been developed as an alternative to $^3$He detectors. In particular, The Multi-Grid detector concept is considered for future large area detectors for ESS and ILL instruments. An…

As wireless communication systems evolve, automatic modulation recognition (AMR) plays a key role in improving spectrum efficiency, especially in cognitive radio systems. Traditional AMR methods face challenges in complex, noisy…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-22 Wangye Jiang , Haoming Yang , Xinyu Lu , Mingyuan Wang , Huimei Sun , Jingya Zhang

Algorithms for mutual interference mitigation and object parameter estimation are a key enabler for automotive applications of frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar. In this paper, we introduce a signal separation method to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-03 Mate Toth , Erik Leitinger , Klaus Witrisal

AMBER is the General User near-infrared focal instrument of the Very Large Telescope interferometer. Its specifications are based on three key programs on Young Stellar Objects, Active Galactic Nuclei central regions, masses and spectra of…

Significant challenges exist in efficient data analysis of most advanced experimental and observational techniques because the collected signals often include unwanted contributions--such as background and signal distortions--that can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Yuan Ni , Zhantao Chen , Alexander N. Petsch , Edmund Xu , Cheng Peng , Alexander I. Kolesnikov , Sugata Chowdhury , Arun Bansil , Jana B. Thayer , Joshua J. Turner

Raman spectroscopy has attracted interest as a non-invasive optical technique to study the composition and structure of a wide range of materials at the microscopic level. The intrinsic fluorescence background can be orders of magnitude…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-10-28 P. J. Cadusch , M. M. Hlaing , S. A. Wade , S. L. McArthur , P. R. Stoddart

Backscatter of electrons from a beta spectrometer, with incomplete energy deposition, can lead to undesirable effects in many types of experiments. We present and discuss the design and operation of a backscatter-suppressed beta…

Many types of neutron spectrometer use a conventional primary spectrometer consisting of some collimator, a crystal monochromator and a second collimator. Conventional resolution descriptions use instrument parameter values to deduce the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-06-21 Leo D. Cussen

Multichannel frequency estimation with incomplete data and miscellaneous noises arises in array signal processing, modal analysis, wireless communications, and so on. In this paper, we consider maximum-likelihood(-like) optimization methods…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-18 Xunmeng Wu , Zai Yang , Zongben Xu

Depth estimation is a core task in 3D computer vision. Recent methods investigate the task of monocular depth trained with various depth sensor modalities. Every sensor has its advantages and drawbacks caused by the nature of estimates. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-11 HyunJun Jung , Patrick Ruhkamp , Guangyao Zhai , Nikolas Brasch , Yitong Li , Yannick Verdie , Jifei Song , Yiren Zhou , Anil Armagan , Slobodan Ilic , Ales Leonardis , Benjamin Busam

We present an extension of the harmonic-space maximum-entropy component separation method (MEM) for multi-frequency CMB observations that allows one to perform the separation with more plausible assumptions about the receiver noise and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 V. Stolyarov , M. P. Hobson , A. N. Lasenby , R. B. Barreiro

Efficient estimation of nonlinear properties is a significant yet challenging task from quantum information processing to many-body physics. Current methodologies often suffer from an exponential sampling cost or require auxiliary qubits…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-03 Qing Liu , Zihao Li , Xiao Yuan , Huangjun Zhu , You Zhou

One of the key requirements for neutron scattering instruments is the Signal-to-Background ratio (SBR). This is as well a design driving requirement for many instruments at the European Spallation Source (ESS), which aspires to be the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-02-20 E. Dian , K. Kanaki , A. Khaplanov , T. Kittelmann , P. Zagyvai , R. Hall-Wilton