Speaker
Janina Dorin Hakenmueller
(Duke University)
Description
Core collapse supernova explosions offer a rich potential of physics to explore. The emitted neutrinos are the first signals to reach the earth. Detecting these neutrinos and their direction can provide valuable information to optical detection systems in a multi messenger astronomy approach.
In liquid argon time projection chambers such as DUNE the charge interactions are the most abundant for supernova neutrinos, while only elastic neutrino electron scatters with an about ten times smaller cross section carry directly accessible pointing information. Thus it is crucial to be able to reliably distinguish between the two types of interactions. In my talk I will explore the idea of using a gradient boosted decision tree for this purpose.
Author
Janina Dorin Hakenmueller
(Duke University)
