Electron-hadron shower discrimination in a liquid argon time projection chamber

A. Ankowski; A. Ereditato; A. J. Bennieston; A. Rubbia; B. Andrieu; B. Fleming; B. Morgan; C. Andreopoulos; C. Rubbia; C.B. Barber; E. Aprile; E.F. Martinez; G. J. Barker; I.T. Jolliffe; J. J. Back; M. Tanaka; P. Huber; P. Speckmayer; S. Agostinelli; S. Amoruso; S. B. Boyd; T.E. Oliphant; Y. A. Ramachers

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Electron-hadron shower discrimination in a liquid argon time projection chamber

Authors: A. Ankowski
A. Ereditato
A. J. Bennieston
A. Rubbia
B. Andrieu
B. Fleming
B. Morgan
C. Andreopoulos
C. Rubbia
C.B. Barber
E. Aprile
E.F. Martinez
G. J. Barker
I.T. Jolliffe
J. J. Back
M. Tanaka
P. Huber
P. Speckmayer
S. Agostinelli
S. Amoruso
S. B. Boyd
T.E. Oliphant
Y. A. Ramachers
Publication date: 1 March 2013
Publisher: 'Springer Science and Business Media LLC'
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Abstract

By exploiting structural differences between electromagnetic and hadronic showers in a multivariate analysis we present an efficient Electron-Hadron discrimination algorithm for liquid argon time projection chambers, validated using Geant4 simulated data