Eur. Phys. J. C (2013) 73: 2369
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-013-2369-y

Special Article - Tools for Experiment and Theory

Electron-hadron shower discrimination in a liquid argon time projection chamber

Dept. of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK

^* e-mail: y.a.ramachers@warwick.ac.uk

Received: 26 October 2012
Revised: 18 February 2013
Published online: 21 March 2013

Abstract

By exploiting structural differences between electromagnetic and hadronic showers in a multivariate analysis we present an efficient Electron-Hadron discrimination algorithm for liquid argon time projection chambers, validated using Geant4 simulated data.