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Mr Kristian Tchiorniy (Technical University of Munich)03/09/2026, 16:00Applications in Astro-HEP and Neutrino PhysicsTalk + poster
The geometrical layout of any experiment or detector can have a large impact on its ability to produce meaningful outcomes for physics. Oftentimes we see that optimal geometries can be unintuitive. Studying and optimizing this is therefore essential. This has become a relevant topic for the optimization of cubic-kilometer-scale neutrino optical telescopes that are yet to be built. In...
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Oliver Janik03/09/2026, 16:30Applications in Astro-HEP and Neutrino PhysicsTalk + poster
Optimizing the design of a neutrino telescope requires a cost function that quantifies detector performance. Generic proxies such as angular resolution or background rejection are convenient, but do not necessarily track the sensitivity of a specific analysis, which depends on the physics goal, be it source discovery or a flux measurement.
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Vincent Riechers (Universite de Geneve (CH))03/09/2026, 17:00Applications in Astro-HEP and Neutrino PhysicsTalk + poster
We present an end-to-end optimization pipeline that designs the geometry of a tungsten-based silicon pixel detector to maximize a downstream physics objective: the separation of tau-neutrino charged-current interactions from electron- and muon-neutrino backgrounds. For candidate detector designs, a deep-learning classifier is trained on the detector hits, and a surrogate model over the...
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Martin Ravn05/09/2026, 09:00Applications in Astro-HEP and Neutrino PhysicsTalk + poster
In-ice radio detection is a rapidly advancing field, aiming to observe the first ultra-high-energy neutrinos within the coming years. With several experiments under construction and in the planning stages, like RNO-G and the IceCube-Gen2 radio array, it is crucial to systematically explore potential detector designs to maximize the performance of the experiments and their scientific...
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Izan Florez05/09/2026, 09:30Applications in Astro-HEP and Neutrino PhysicsTalk
Abstract: Optimizing the detector array layout for the TAMBO experiment across the Colca Valley walls poses a high-dimensional placement problem intractable through conventional simulation methods. To address this, we propose an end-to-end differentiable optimization pipeline for the array layout. Built on a flow-matching shower surrogate trained on CORSIKA simulations, the pipeline chains a...
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Nicolai Weitkemper05/09/2026, 10:00Applications in Astro-HEP and Neutrino PhysicsTalk + poster
Ultra-high-energy (EeV-scale) neutrinos provide a unique probe of the most energetic astrophysical accelerators and of particle interactions at energies far beyond those accessible in terrestrial experiments. Detecting these neutrinos requires instrumenting enormous target volumes, making in-ice radio arrays a promising approach due to the long attenuation length of radio signals in glacial...
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Izan FlorezApplications in Astro-HEP and Neutrino PhysicsPoster
Abstract: Extensive air shower simulations from primary cosmic rays are traditionally performed using computationally intensive Monte Carlo methods, consuming significant resources in astroparticle physics. To address this, we propose a continuous normalizing flow matching model for the TAMBO experiment to accelerate simulations. Trained on high-energy showers generated with CORSIKA, the model...
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