A particle classification system for the PAMELA calorimeter

Details A particle classification system for the PAMELA calorimeter A particle classification system for the PAMELA calorimeter

Jan 2005

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005aph....22..431b&link_type=abstract

Astroparticle Physics, Volume 22, Issue 5-6, p. 431-438.

Physics

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98.70.Sa, 07.05.Mh, 95.55.Vj

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In this paper we propose a particle classification system for the imaging calorimeter of the PAMELA satellite-borne experiment. The system consist of three main processing phases. First, a segmentation of the whole signal detected by the calorimeter is performed to select a Region of Interest (RoI); this step allows to retain bounded and space invariant portions of data for the following analysis. In the next step, the RoIs are characterized by means of nine discriminating variables, which measure event properties useful for the classification. The third phase (the classification step) relies on two different supervised algorithms, Artificial Neural Networks and Support Vector Machines. The system was tested with a large simulated data set, composed by 40 GeV/c momentum electrons and protons. Moreover, in order to study the classification power of the calorimeter for experimental data, we have also used biased simulated data. A proton contamination in the range 10-4 10-5 at an electron efficiency greater than 95% was obtained. The results are adequate for the PAMELA imaging calorimeter and show that the approach to the classification based on soft computing techniques is complementary to the traditional analysis performed using optimized cascade cuts on different variables.

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