Next-Generation Triggering: A Novel Event-Level Approach

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Autores principales: Köhler, Jelena, Benoit-Lévy, Aurélien, Correa, Pablo, Ferriere, Arsène, Huege, Tim, Kotera, Kumiko, Martineau-Huynh, Olivier, Prunet, Simon, Roth, Markus
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author Köhler, Jelena
Benoit-Lévy, Aurélien
Correa, Pablo
Ferriere, Arsène
Huege, Tim
Kotera, Kumiko
Martineau-Huynh, Olivier
Prunet, Simon
Roth, Markus
author_facet Köhler, Jelena
Benoit-Lévy, Aurélien
Correa, Pablo
Ferriere, Arsène
Huege, Tim
Kotera, Kumiko
Martineau-Huynh, Olivier
Prunet, Simon
Roth, Markus
contents Large-scale cosmic-ray detectors like the Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND) are pushing the boundaries of our ability to identify air shower events. Existing trigger schemes rely solely on the timing of signals detected by individual antennas, which brings many challenges in distinguishing true air shower signals from background. This work explores novel event-level radio trigger methods specifically designed for GRAND, but also applicable to other systems, such as the Radio Detector (RD) of the Pierre Auger Observatory. In addition to an upgraded plane wave front reconstruction technique, we introduce orthogonal and complementary approaches that analyze the radio-emission footprint, the spatial distribution of signal strength across triggered antennas, to refine event selection. We test our methods on mock data sets constructed with simulated showers and real background noise measured with the GRAND prototype, to assess the performance potential in terms of sensitivity and background rejection in GRAND. Our preliminary results are a first step to identifying the most discriminating radio signal features at event-level, and optimizing the techniques for future implementation on experimental data.
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spellingShingle Next-Generation Triggering: A Novel Event-Level Approach
Köhler, Jelena
Benoit-Lévy, Aurélien
Correa, Pablo
Ferriere, Arsène
Huege, Tim
Kotera, Kumiko
Martineau-Huynh, Olivier
Prunet, Simon
Roth, Markus
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Large-scale cosmic-ray detectors like the Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND) are pushing the boundaries of our ability to identify air shower events. Existing trigger schemes rely solely on the timing of signals detected by individual antennas, which brings many challenges in distinguishing true air shower signals from background. This work explores novel event-level radio trigger methods specifically designed for GRAND, but also applicable to other systems, such as the Radio Detector (RD) of the Pierre Auger Observatory. In addition to an upgraded plane wave front reconstruction technique, we introduce orthogonal and complementary approaches that analyze the radio-emission footprint, the spatial distribution of signal strength across triggered antennas, to refine event selection. We test our methods on mock data sets constructed with simulated showers and real background noise measured with the GRAND prototype, to assess the performance potential in terms of sensitivity and background rejection in GRAND. Our preliminary results are a first step to identifying the most discriminating radio signal features at event-level, and optimizing the techniques for future implementation on experimental data.
title Next-Generation Triggering: A Novel Event-Level Approach
topic Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.17220