A Deep Neural Network for Pixel-Level Electromagnetic Particle Identification in the MicroBooNE Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber

no code implementations • 22 Aug 2018 • MicroBooNE collaboration, C. Adams, M. Alrashed, R. An, J. Anthony, J. Asaadi, A. Ashkenazi, M. Auger, S. Balasubramanian, B. Baller, C. Barnes, G. Barr, M. Bass, F. Bay, A. Bhat, K. Bhattacharya, M. Bishai, A. Blake, T. Bolton, L. Camilleri, D. Caratelli, I. Caro Terrazas, R. Carr, R. Castillo Fernandez, F. Cavanna, G. Cerati, Y. Chen, E. Church, D. Cianci, E. Cohen, G. H. Collin, J. M. Conrad, M. Convery, L. Cooper-Troendle, J. I. Crespo-Anadon, M. Del Tutto, D. Devitt, A. Diaz, K. Duffy, S. Dytman, B. Eberly, A. Ereditato, L. Escudero Sanchez, J. Esquivel, J. J. Evans, A. A. Fadeeva, R. S. Fitzpatrick, B. T. Fleming, D. Franco, A. P. Furmanski, D. Garcia-Gamez, G. T. Garvey, V. Genty, D. Goeldi, S. Gollapinni, O. Goodwin, E. Gramellini, H. Greenlee, R. Grosso, R. Guenette, P. Guzowski, A. Hackenburg, P. Hamilton, O. Hen, J. Hewes, C. Hill, G. A. Horton-Smith, A. Hourlier, E. -C. Huang, C. James, J. Jan de Vries, L. Jiang, R. A. Johnson, J. Joshi, H. Jostlein, Y. -J. Jwa, G. Karagiorgi, W. Ketchum, B. Kirby, M. Kirby, T. Kobilarcik, I. Kreslo, Y. Li, A. Lister, B. R. Littlejohn, S. Lockwitz, D. Lorca, W. C. Louis, M. Luethi, B. Lundberg, X. Luo, A. Marchionni, S. Marcocci, C. Mariani, J. Marshall, J. Martin-Albo, D. A. Martinez Caicedo, A. Mastbaum, V. Meddage, T. Mettler, G. B. Mills, K. Mistry, A. Mogan, J. Moon, M. Mooney, C. D. Moore, J. Mousseau, M. Murphy, R. Murrells, D. Naples, P. Nienaber, J. Nowak, O. Palamara, V. Pandey, V. Paolone, A. Papadopoulou, V. Papavassiliou, S. F. Pate, Z. Pavlovic, E. Piasetzky, D. Porzio, G. Pulliam, X. Qian, J. L. Raaf, A. Rafique, L. Rochester, M. Ross-Lonergan, C. Rudolf von Rohr, B. Russell, D. W. Schmitz, A. Schukraft, W. Seligman, M. H. Shaevitz, R. Sharankova, J. Sinclair, A. Smith, E. L. Snider, M. Soderberg, S. Soldner-Rembold, S. R. Soleti, P. Spentzouris, J. Spitz, J. St. John, T. Strauss, K. Sutton, S. Sword-Fehlberg, A. M. Szelc, N. Tagg, W. Tang, K. Terao, M. Thomson, R. T. Thornton, M. Toups, Y. -T. Tsai, S. Tufanli, T. Usher, W. Van De Pontseele, R. G. Van de Water, B. Viren, M. Weber, H. Wei, D. A. Wickremasinghe, K. Wierman, Z. Williams, S. Wolbers, T. Wongjirad, K. Woodruff, T. Yang, G. Yarbrough, L. E. Yates, G. P. Zeller, J. Zennamo, C. Zhang

We have developed a convolutional neural network (CNN) that can make a pixel-level prediction of objects in image data recorded by a liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) for the first time.

Dark Matter Search in Nucleon, Pion, and Electron Channels from a Proton Beam Dump with MiniBooNE

1 code implementation • 16 Jul 2018 • MiniBooNE-DM Collaboration, A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo, M. Backfish, A. Bashyal, B. Batell, B. C. Brown, R. Carr, A. Chatterjee, R. L. Cooper, P. deNiverville, R. Dharmapalan, Z. Djurcic, R. Ford, F. G. Garcia, G. T. Garvey, J. Grange, J. A. Green, E. -C. Huang, W. Huelsnitz, I. L. de Icaza Astiz, G. Karagiorgi, T. Katori, W. Ketchum, T. Kobilarcik, Q. Liu, W. C. Louis, W. Marsh, C. D. Moore, G. B. Mills, J. Mirabal, P. Nienaber, Z. Pavlovic, D. Perevalov, H. Ray, B. P. Roe, M. H. Shaevitz, S. Shahsavarani, I. Stancu, R. Tayloe, C. Taylor, R. T. Thornton, R. G. Van de Water, W. Wester, D. H. White, J. Yu

A search for sub-GeV dark matter produced from collisions of the Fermilab 8 GeV Booster protons with a steel beam dump was performed by the MiniBooNE-DM Collaboration using data from $1. 86 \times 10^{20}$ protons on target in a dedicated run.

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Dark Matter Search in a Proton Beam Dump with MiniBooNE

1 code implementation • 9 Feb 2017 • A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo, M. Backfish, A. Bashyal, B. Batell, B. C. Brown, R. Carr, A. Chatterjee, R. L. Cooper, P. deNiverville, R. Dharmapalan, Z. Djurcic, R. Ford, F. G. Garcia, G. T. Garvey, J. Grange, J. A. Green, W. Huelsnitz, I. L. de Icaza Astiz, G. Karagiorgi, T. Katori, W. Ketchum, T. Kobilarcik, Q. Liu, W. C. Louis, W. Marsh, C. D. Moore, G. B. Mills, J. Mirabal, P. Nienaber, Z. Pavlovic, D. Perevalov, H. Ray, B. P. Roe, M. H. Shaevitz, S. Shahsavarani, I. Stancu, R. Tayloe, C. Taylor, R. T. Thornton, R. Van de Water, W. Wester, D. H. White, J. Yu

The MiniBooNE-DM collaboration searched for vector-boson mediated production of dark matter using the Fermilab 8 GeV Booster proton beam in a dedicated run with $1. 86 \times 10^{20}$ protons delivered to a steel beam dump.

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