Multivariate cumulants in flow analyses: The Next GenerationWe reconcile for the first time the strict mathematical formalism of multivariate cumulants with the usage of cumulants in anisotropic flow analyses in high-energy nuclear collisions. This…Ante Bilandzic, Marcel Lesch, Cindy Mordasini et al.·Jan 11, 2021SaveLearn
Neural Network for 3D ICF Shell Reconstruction from Single RadiographsIn inertial confinement fusion (ICF), X-ray radiography is a critical diagnostic for measuring implosion dynamics, which contains rich 3D information. Traditional methods for reconstructing 3D…Bradley T. Wolfe, Zhizhong Han, Jonathan S. Ben-Benjamin et al.·Jan 11, 2021SaveLearn
Random Conical Tilt Reconstruction without Particle Picking in Cryo-electron MicroscopyWe propose a method to reconstruct the 3-D molecular structure from micrographs collected at just one sample tilt angle in the random conical tilt scheme in cryo-electron microscopy. Our method uses…Ti-Yen Lan, Nicolas Boumal, Amit Singer·Jan 10, 2021SaveLearn
Persistent Homology of Fractional Gaussian NoiseIn this paper, we employ the persistent homology (PH) technique to examine the topological properties of fractional Gaussian noise (fGn). We develop the weighted natural visibility graph algorithm,…H. Masoomy, B. Askari, M. N. Najafi et al.·Jan 9, 2021SaveLearn
Bayesian inference of 1D activity profiles from segmented gamma scanning of a heterogeneous radioactive waste drumWe present a Bayesian approach to probabilistically infer vertical activity profiles within a radioactive waste drum from segmented gamma scanning (SGS) measurements. Our approach resorts to Markov…Eric Laloy, Bart Rogiers, An Bielen et al.·Jan 6, 2021SaveLearn
A data-driven convergence criterion for iterative unfolding of smeared spectraA data-driven convergence criterion for the D'Agostini (Richardson-Lucy) iterative unfolding is presented. It relies on the unregularized spectrum (infinite number of iterations), and allows a safe…M. Licciardi, B. Quilain·Jan 4, 2021SaveLearn
Estimating Experimental Dispersion Curves from Steady-State Frequency Response MeasurementsDispersion curves characterize the frequency dependence of the phase and the group velocities of propagating elastic waves. Many analytical and numerical techniques produce dispersion curves from…V. V. N. Sriram Malladi, Mohammad I. Albakri, Manu Krishnan et al.·Jan 1, 2021SaveLearn
Bayesian Analysis of a Future Beta Decay Experiment's Sensitivity to Neutrino Mass Scale and OrderingBayesian modeling techniques enable sensitivity analyses that incorporate detailed expectations regarding future experiments. A model-based approach also allows one to evaluate inferences and…A. Ashtari Esfahani, M. Betancourt, Z. Bogorad et al.·Dec 24, 2020SaveLearn
Image-Based Jet AnalysisImage-based jet analysis is built upon the jet image representation of jets that enables a direct connection between high energy physics and the fields of computer vision and deep learning. Through…Michael Kagan·Dec 17, 2020SaveLearn
Maximum Entropy competes with Maximum LikelihoodMaximum entropy (MAXENT) method has a large number of applications in theoretical and applied machine learning, since it provides a convenient non-parametric tool for estimating unknown…A. E. Allahverdyan, N. H. Martirosyan·Dec 17, 2020SaveLearn
Maximum-likelihood parameter estimation in terahertz time-domain spectroscopyWe present a maximum-likelihood method for parameter estimation in terahertz time-domain spectroscopy. We derive the likelihood function for a parameterized frequency response function, given a pair…Laleh Mohtashemi, Paul Westlund, Derek G. Sahota et al.·Dec 15, 2020SaveLearn
Machine Learning scientific competitions and datasetsA number of scientific competitions have been organised in the last few years with the objective of discovering innovative techniques to perform typical High Energy Physics tasks, like event…David Rousseau, Andrey Ustyuzhanin·Dec 15, 2020SaveLearn
Particle Track Reconstruction using Geometric Deep LearningMuons are the most abundant charged particles arriving at sea level originating from the decay of secondary charged pions and kaons. These secondary particles are created when high-energy cosmic rays…Yogesh Verma, Satyajit Jena·Dec 15, 2020SaveLearn
Uniform reliability tests for forecasting systems with small lead timeA long noted difficulty when assessing the reliability (or calibration) of forecasting systems is that reliability, in general, is a hypothesis not about a finite dimensional parameter but about an…Jochen Bröcker·Dec 8, 2020SaveLearn
Experimental noise in small-angle scattering can be assessed using the Bayesian indirect Fourier transformationSmall-angle X-ray and neutron scattering are widely used to investigate soft matter and biophysical systems. The experimental errors are essential when assessing how well a hypothesized model fits…Andreas Haahr Larsen, Martin Cramer Pedersen·Dec 8, 2020SaveLearn
What the new RooFit can do for your analysisRooFit is a toolkit for statistical modelling and fitting, and together with RooStats it is used for measurements and statistical tests by most experiments in particle physics. Since one year, RooFit…Stephan Hageboeck·Dec 4, 2020SaveLearn
The electrostatic graph algorithm: a physics-defined method for converting a time-series into a weighted complex networkThis paper proposes a new method for converting a time-series into a weighted graph (complex network), which builds on the electrostatic conceptualization originating from physics. The proposed…Dimitrios Tsiotas, Lykourgos Magafas, Panos Argyrakis·Dec 2, 2020SaveLearn
Cosmic Background Removal with Deep Neural Networks in SBNDIn liquid argon time projection chambers exposed to neutrino beams and running on or near surface levels, cosmic muons and other cosmic particles are incident on the detectors while a single…SBND Collaboration, R. Acciarri, C. Adams et al.·Dec 2, 2020SaveLearn
Graph Generative Adversarial Networks for Sparse Data Generation in High Energy PhysicsWe develop a graph generative adversarial network to generate sparse data sets like those produced at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). We demonstrate this approach by training on and generating…Raghav Kansal, Javier Duarte, Breno Orzari et al.·Nov 30, 2020SaveLearn
An algorithm for the automatic deglitching of x-ray absorption spectroscopy dataAnalysis of x-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) data often involves the removal of artifacts or glitches from the acquired signal, a process commonly known as deglitching. Glitches result either from…Samuel M. Wallace, Marco A. Alsina, Jean-François Gaillard·Nov 29, 2020SaveLearn
Explainable AI for ML jet taggers using expert variables and layerwise relevance propagationA framework is presented to extract and understand decision-making information from a deep neural network (DNN) classifier of jet substructure tagging techniques. The general method studied is to…Garvita Agarwal, Lauren Hay, Ia Iashvili et al.·Nov 26, 2020SaveLearn
Sensitivity optimization of multichannel searches for new signalsThe frequentist definition of sensitivity of a search for new phenomena proposed in arXiv:0308063 has been utilized in a number of published experimental searches. In most cases, the simple…Giovanni Punzi·Nov 23, 2020SaveLearn
A novel approach to the localization and the estimate of radioactivity in contaminated waste packages via imaging techniquesDismantling nuclear power plants entails the production of a large amount of contaminated (or potentially contaminated) material whose disposal is of crucial importance. Most of the end products have…Michele Pastena, Bastian Weinhorst, Günter Kanisch et al.·Nov 15, 2020SaveLearn
Formation of Regression Model for Analysis of Complex Systems Using Methodology of Genetic AlgorithmsThis study presents the approach to analyzing the evolution of an arbitrary complex system whose behavior is characterized by a set of different time-dependent factors. The key requirement for these…Anatolii V. Mokshin, Vladimir V. Mokshin, Diana A. Mirziyarova·Nov 13, 2020SaveLearn
Analysis of a bistable climate toy model with physics-based machine learning methodsWe propose a comprehensive framework able to address both the predictability of the first and of the second kind for high-dimensional chaotic models. For this purpose, we analyse the properties of a…Maximilian Gelbrecht, Valerio Lucarini, Niklas Boers et al.·Nov 13, 2020SaveLearn