In this paper we have introduced a novel method for gamma hadron separation in Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACT) using Quantum Machine Learning. IACTs captures images of Extensive Air Showers (EAS) produced from very high energy gamma rays. We have used the QML Algorithms, Quantum Support Vector Classifier (QSVC) and Variational Quantum Classifier (VQC) for binary classification of the events into signals (Gamma) and background(hadron) using the image parameters. MAGIC Gamma Telescope dataset is used for this study which was generated from Monte Carlo Software Coriska. These quantum algorithms achieve performance comparable to standard multivariate classification techniques and can be used to solve variety of real-world problems. The classification accuracy is improved by hyper parameter tuning. We propose a new architecture for using QSVC efficiently on large datasets and found that clustering enhance the overall performance.
@article{arxiv.2210.03771,
title = {Gamma-hadron Separation in Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes using Quantum Classifiers},
author = {Jashwanth S and Sudeep Ghosh and Neha Shah and Kavitha Yogaraj and Ankhi Roy},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.03771},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
It was supposed to be submitted as a Master Thesis and not as a paper. We need to withdraw this submission, so that we will able to submit this again as a Thesis