Frontiers of Fundamental Physics pp 297-302 | Cite as
NEURAL NETWORKS FOR GAMMA-HADRON SEPARATION IN MAGIC
Abstract
Neural networks have proved to be versatile and robust for particle separation in many experiments related to particle astrophysics. We apply these techniques to separate gamma rays from hadrons for the MAGIC Čerenkov Telescope. Two types of neural network architectures have been used for the classification task: one is the MultiLayer Perceptron (MLP) based on supervised learning, and the other is the Self-Organising Tree Algorithm (SOTA), which is based on unsupervised learning. We propose a new architecture by combining these two neural networks types to yield better and faster classification results for our classification problem.
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