Principal components analysis of Cerenkov photon distributions from extensive air showers applied to GeV gamma-proton discrimination

Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 50-57

  Contreras, J L ^a   Faleiro, E ^b   Gomez J M G ^a   Molina, R A ^c   Munoz L ^a   Relano A ^a   Retamosa, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK KOMPLEXER SYSTEME   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hadron discrimination; 1 f noise; Cerenkov photons; Cosmic ray fluctuations; Principal components analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSMIC RAYS; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; GAMMA RAYS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

1/F NOISE; CERENKOV PHOTONS; COSMIC RAY FLUCTUATIONS; HADRON DISCRIMINATION;

PHOTONS;

EID: 33747889724     PISSN: 09276505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.astropartphys.2006.04.010     Document Type: Article

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