Reconstruction of muon number of air showers with the surface detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory using neural networks
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2024
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Hahn, S.T.
Abdul Halim, A.
Abreu, P.
Aglietta, M.
Allekotte, I.
Almeida Cheminant, K.
Almela, A.
Aloisio, R.
Alvarez-Muñiz, J.
Ammerman Yebra, J.
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Proceedings of Science, 2024, vol.444, pp.318-1-318-13
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International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC) (26 Jul 2023 - 3 Aug 2023 : Nagoya, Japan)
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To understand the physics of cosmic rays at the highest energies, it is mandatory to have an accurate knowledge of their mass composition. Since the mass of the primary particles cannot be measured directly, we have to rely on the analysis of mass-sensitive observables to gain insights into this composition. A promising observable for this purpose is the number of muons at the ground relative to that of an air shower induced by a proton primary of the same energy and inclination angle, commonly referred to as the relative muon number Rµ. <br/> <br/> Due to the complexity of shower footprints, the extraction of Rµ from measurements is a challenging task and intractable to solve using analytic approaches. We, therefore, reconstruct Rµ by exploiting the spatial and temporal information of the signals induced by shower particles using neural networks. Using this data-driven approach permits us to tackle this task without the need of modeling the underlying physics and, simultaneously, gives us insights into the feasibility of such an approach. <br/> <br/> In this contribution, we summarize the progress of the deep-learning-based approach to estimate Rµ using simulated surface detector data of the Pierre Auger Observatory. Instead of using single architecture, we present different network designs verifying that they reach similar results. Moreover, we demonstrate the potential for estimating Rµ using the scintillator surface detector of the AugerPrime upgrade.
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