Electron/pion separation with an emulsion cloud chamber by using a neural network

Journal of Instrumentation

Volumn 2, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Arrabito, L ^f   Autiero, D ^f   Bozza, C ^k   Buontempo, S ^g   Caffari, Y ^f   Consiglio, L ^d   Cozzi, M ^d   D'Ambrosio, N ^a   De Lellis, G ^g   De Serio, M ^b   Di Capua, F ^g   Di Ferdinando, D ^d   Di Marco, N ^e   Ereditato, A ^c   Esposito, L S ^a   Gagnebin, S ^h   Giacomelli, G ^d   Giorgini, M ^d   Grella, G ^k   Hauger, M ^h   Ieva, M ^b   Csathy, J Janicsko ^h   Juget, F ^h   Kreslo, I ^c   Laktineh, I ^f   Longhin, A ⁱ   Mandrioli, G ^d   Marotta, A ^g   Marteau, J ^f   Migliozzi, P ^g   Monacelli, P ^e   Moser, U ^c   Muciaccia, M T ^b   Pastore, A ^b   Patrizii, L ^d   Pistillo, C ^c   Pozzato, M ^d   Romano, G ^k   Rosa, G ^j   Russo, A ^g   Savvinov, N ^c   Schembri, A ^j   Lavina, L Scotto ^g   Simone, S ^b   Sioli, M ^d   Sirignano, C ^k   Sirri, G ^d   Strolin, P ^g   Tioukov, V ^g   more..

^a LABORATORI NAZIONALI DEL GRAN SASSO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^g INFN SEZIONE DI NAPOLI   (Italy)

^h UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^j UNIVERSITÀ DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA   (Italy)

^k UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

more..

Author keywords

Particle identification methods; Particle tracking detectors

Indexed keywords

CLOUD CHAMBERS; EMULSIFICATION; HADRONS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTOGRAPHIC EMULSIONS; SEPARATION;

ELECTRON IDENTIFICATION; NUCLEAR EMULSION FILMS; PARTICLE IDENTIFICATION METHOD; PARTICLE TRACKING; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; SEPARATION ALGORITHMS;

ELECTRONS;

EID: 34247269734     PISSN: 17480221     EISSN: 17480221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/2/02/p02001     Document Type: Article

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