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Open AccessFiber Optic Vacuum Ultraviolet Sensor Based on an AlN-Microwire Probe
Vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) light sensing shows great potential applications in the space science, materials, biophysics, and plasma physics. In this work, an all-optical detection method is proposed for VUV sens...
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Measurement of Br(n,γ) cross sections up to stellar s-process temperatures at the CSNS Back-n
The neutron capture cross sections ( \({n,\gamma }\) n , ...
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Decentralized continuous-variable quantum secret sharing
Quantum secret sharing (QSS) is a method that allows multiple users to obtain pieces of a secret key from a dealer, but the complete key can only be recovered if all users collaborate. However, the status of t...
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The Advanced Space-Based Solar Observatory (ASO-S)
The Advanced Space-based Solar Observatory (ASO-S) was successfully launched at 23:43 UT on 8 October 2022. Here we describe the final technical status of the whole mission right before the launch, including the ...
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Five-year in-orbit background of Insight-HXMT
We present the five-year in-orbit background evolution of Insight-HXMT since the launch, as well as the effects of the background model in data analysis.
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In-orbit performance of ME onboard Insight-HXMT in the first 5 years
The medium-energy X-ray telescope (ME) is a collimated X-ray telescope onboard the Insight hard X-ray modulation telescope (Insight-HXMT) satellite. It has 1728 Si-PIN pixels readout using 54 low noise applicatio...
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Open AccessMass testing and characterization of 20-inch PMTs for JUNO
Main goal of the JUNO experiment is to determine the neutrino mass ordering using a 20 kt liquid-scintillator detector. Its key feature is an excellent energy resolution of at least 3% at 1 MeV, for which its ...
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Multiple Dirac points including potential spin-orbit Dirac points in nonsymmorphic HfGe0.92Te
The search for new materials with Dirac points has been a fascinating subject of condensed matter physics. Here we first report the growth and band structure of HfGe0.92Te single crystals featuring three differen...
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Open AccessObservation of the doubly Cabibbo-suppressed decays D+ → K+π0π0 and D+ → K+π0η
By analyzing e+e− annihilation data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2.93 fb−1 collected at the center-of-mass energy of 3.773 GeV with the BESIII detector, we report the first observations of the dou...
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Open AccessDam** signatures at JUNO, a medium-baseline reactor neutrino oscillation experiment
We study dam** signatures at the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO), a medium-baseline reactor neutrino oscillation experiment. These dam** signatures are motivated by various new physics mod...
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Satellite-to-submarine quantum communication based on measurement-device-independent continuous-variable quantum key distribution
In satellite-to-submarine quantum communication, sea surface, which may cause refraction and propagation light deflection, is a non-negligible obstacle. These negative effects can result in severe performance ...
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Open AccessRadioactivity control strategy for the JUNO detector
JUNO is a massive liquid scintillator detector with a primary scientific goal of determining the neutrino mass ordering by studying the oscillated anti-neutrino flux coming from two nuclear power plants at 53 ...
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Open AccessThe design and sensitivity of JUNO’s scintillator radiopurity pre-detector OSIRIS
The OSIRIS detector is a subsystem of the liquid scintillator filling chain of the JUNO reactor neutrino experiment. Its purpose is to validate the radiopurity of the scintillator to assure that all components...
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Open AccessFiber-tip polymer clamped-beam probe for high-sensitivity nanoforce measurements
Micromanipulation and biological, material science, and medical applications often require to control or measure the forces asserted on small objects. Here, we demonstrate for the first time the microprinting ...
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Performance improvement of unidimensional continuous-variable quantum key distribution using zero-photon quantum catalysis
Compared with symmetric Gaussian-modulated coherent state protocol, the unidimensional continuous-variable quantum key distribution (UCVQKD) only modulates one of the quadratures in phase space of coherent sta...
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Discovery of oscillations above 200 keV in a black hole X-ray binary with Insight-HXMT
Low-frequency quasiperiodic oscillations (LFQPOs) are commonly found in black hole X-ray binaries, and their origin is still under debate. The properties of LFQPOs at high energies (above 30 keV) are closely r...
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Overview to the Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (Insight-HXMT) Satellite
As China’s first X-ray astronomical satellite, the Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (HXMT), which was dubbed as Insight-HXMT after the launch on June 15, 2017, is a wide-band (1-250 keV) slat-collimator-based X-ra...
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Improving Continuous-Variable Quantum Key Distribution in a Turbulent Atmospheric Channel via Photon Subtraction
The transmission performance of continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CVQKD) in turbulent atmospheric channel is lower than CVQKD in fiber channel due to the large loss of quantum entanglement in turbu...
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Performance improvement of free-space continuous-variable quantum key distribution with an adaptive optics unit
We propose a method to enhance the performance of the free-space continuous-variable quantum key distribution (FSCVQKD) by utilizing an adaptive optics (AO) unit at the receiver’s side to suppress wavefront di...
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Plug-and-play dual-phase-modulated continuous-variable quantum key distribution with photon subtraction
Plug-and-play dual-phase-modulated continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CVQKD) protocol can effectively solve the security loopholes associated with transmitting local oscillator (LO). However, this p...