Latest research on searching for fractionally charged particles with DAMPE

Shanghai Journal of Stomatology

PURPOSE: To observe the long-term clinical effect of implants retained complete overdentures with Locator attachments. METHODS: A total of 48 patients with edentulous jaws treated with implants retained complete overdentures with Locator attachments were selected from the Outpatient Department of Peking University School and Hospital of Stomatology from 2016 to 2017. Among them, 21 patients underwent double-maxillary complete overdentures restoration and 27 patients underwent single-maxillary restoration. A total of 230 implants were implanted. The clinical observation indicators included the implant survival rate, peri-implant mucosal bleeding on probing (BOP), the change in the vertical height of alveolar bone absorption around the implants, overdenture base fracture rate, artificial tooth fall off and fracture rate and other complications. The change of the locator attachment retention force of the implant-supported overdentures was evaluated. SPSS 13.0 software package was used for data analysis. RESULTS: During the five-years clinical observation period, 5 implants fell off, 1 narrow dimeter implant in the anterior zone was broken, and 12 implants were lost to follow-up. The implant survival rate was 97.25%. One year after the restoration therapy finished, peri-implant mucosal bleeding on probing (BOP+) was detected in 48 (21.4%) implants. The average BI was 0.21±0.42, which was higher in the anterior zone than that in the posterior zone. The vertical alveolar bone absorption height around the implants was (0.21±0.35) mm, 2 implants-supported complete overdenture bases were broken. After 5 years of restoration, 163 (76 …

Although liquid crystal display has been extensively applied, the narrow niche of optical applications is out of the scope of this chapter. Instead, attention here is focused on non-display applications of liquid crystal in microwave, millimeter wave and terahertz wave bands. In accordance, this chapter begins with a brief introduction of the electromagnetic spectrum with intensified interest in microwave, millimeter wave and terahertz wave bands. An overview about applications of liquid crystal at microwave, millimeter wave and terahertz wave frequencies is next presented. The overview and the following topical reviews are based on a literature survey and the collected literatures. Finally, brief reviews on more specific topics are given.

ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems

Industrial Internet plays an important role in key critical infrastructure sectors and is the target of different security threats and risks. There are limitations in many existing attack detection approaches, such as function redundancy, overfitting, and low efficiency. A combinatorial optimization method—Lagrange multiplier—is designed to optimize the underlying feature screening algorithm. The optimized feature combination is fused with random forest and XG-Boost selected features to improve the accuracy and efficiency of attack feature analysis. Using both the UNSW-NB15 and natural gas pipeline datasets, we evaluate the performance of the proposed method. It is observed that the influence degrees of the different features associated with the attack behavior can result in the binary classification attack detection increasing to 0.93 and the attack detection time reducing by 6.96 times. The overall accuracy of multi …

This chapter gives an introduction to generic liquid crystals. First of all, the basic concept of liquid crystals is explained. Some well-known examples of liquid crystals are given to familiarize readers with first hand impression. Next, the history of liquid crystal is chronologically presented.

International Journal of Information Security and Privacy (IJISP)

Aiming at the problem of adopting the same level of privacy protection for sensitive data in the process of data collection and ignoring the difference in privacy protection requirements, the authors propose an adaptive personalized randomized response method based on local differential privacy (LDP-APRR). LDP-APRR determines the sensitive level through the user scoring strategy, introduces the concept of sensitive weights for adaptive allocation of privacy budget, and realizes the personalized privacy protection of sensitive attributes and attribute values. To verify the distorted data availability, LDP-APRR is applied to frequent items mining scenarios and compared with mining associations with secrecy konstraints (MASK), and grouping-based randomization for privacy-preserving frequent pattern mining (GR-PPFM). Results show that the LDP-APRR achieves personalized protection of sensitive attributes and …

Liquid crystal is an intermediate state of matter ubiquitous in modern life with physical properties intermediate between those of conventional crystalline solids and conventional amorphous liquids. A large number of organic and inorganic compounds are known to go through several discrete liquid crystal phases when it is cooled from the isotropic liquid state to the anisotropic solid crystalline state (Chandrasekhar in Liquid crystals, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge University Press, 1992 , pp. 1). Nematic liquid crystals are the simplest liquid crystalline phase as well as the most widely used in applications.

Separation and Purification Technology

The widespread use of chlorine during disinfection has led to the problems of disinfection by-products (DBPs). Recently, the combination of ultraviolet (UV, 254 nm) and vacuum ultraviolet (VUV, 185 nm) with chlorine has been considered a promising strategy to mitigate the formation of DBPs. This study systematically evaluated the efficacy of six different disinfection methods in abating humic acid (HA), a common precursor of DBPs (UV-Chlorine, VUV/UV-Chlorine, Chlorine-UV, Chlorine-VUV/UV, UV/Chlorine, and VUV/UV/Chlorine). Under 40 mJ/cm2 UV fluence and 3 mg/L chlorine dose, the synergistic processes yielded DBP levels below 20 μg/L, whereas sequential disinfection resulted in DBP levels exceeding 100 μg/L. Additionally, there was no significant difference in the formation of DBPs between the two methods of chlorination followed by irradiation. However, for irradiation followed by chlorination, the …

Talanta

Endotoxin in the blood can cause unexplained fever, and even death due to endotoxemia and bacteremia. Rapid and sensitive detection of endotoxin has become a priority event to intervene in the occurrence of dangerous diseases in time. In this context, a carbon nanotubes-based field-effect transistor (CNTs FET) nanosensor is developed to realize the rapid, label-free and sensitive detection of endotoxin. The CNTs FET was fabricated by assembling the polymer-sorted high-purity semiconductor CNT films onto the sensing channel. In order to improve the detection sensitivity, carboxylated graphene quantum dots (cGQDs) were coupled to the CNT surface via the poly-l-lysine (PLL). After that, polymyxin B (PMB), which is highly specific for endotoxin, was covalently combined with cGQDs, thus enabling the capture and detection of endotoxin. The method not only displayed an extremely low level of limitation of …

IET Image Processing

Image inpainting aims to repair the damaged region according to the known content in the damaged image. Recently, image inpainting methods have poor effects on high‐resolution damaged images, and the research on the inpainting of large‐area damaged images is limited. Therefore, this paper proposes an image inpainting method based on Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) inversion and autoencoder. This work consists of two phases: first, the authors design an autoencoder‐based GAN, which learns the mapping from noise to low‐dimensional feature maps by training a generator, and then converts the generated feature maps into high‐resolution images. Thus, the difficulty of learning the mapping relationship is reduced. Second, the authors adopt the learning‐based GAN inversion to infer the closest latent code. The trained GAN is then used to reconstruct the complete image. Finally, the authors …

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

The high-pressure xenon time projection chamber (TPC) utilizing micro-pattern gaseous detector readout has emerged as a highly promising technical solution for the search of neutrino-less double beta decay events. This approach offers exceptional features, including high energy resolution, fine granularity, low background radioactivity, and scalability for large-scale experiments. In line with these advantages, the PandaX-III experiment aims to implement a 10 bar X e 136 TPC, employing a readout plane comprising 52 194× 194 mm 2 Micromegas detectors, within the China Jinping Underground Laboratory. To fulfill the stringent experimental requirements of PandaX-III, a low-background Micromegas detector with high energy resolution was proposed and developed using the thermal bonding method. The performance of the thermal bonding Micromegas prototypes was investigated using X-ray characterization …

National Science Review

A new targeted observational algorithm was developed to optimize prediction targets across various regions and variables. This approach was utilized to design an optimal ENSO monitoring array in the TPOS 2020 project.

ACTA PHYSICA SINICA

Nematic liquid crystal materials designed for optics, microwave communication tuning, etc. need high response speed, which is related to the rotational viscosity and the birefringent index of the liquid crystal. In order to achieve a wide tuning range of phase modulation, the nematic liquid crystals often employ large pi-electron conjugated systems and large polar groups to enhance the birefringence and dielectric anisotropy of the liquid crystal molecule, which, however, increases the viscosity of the liquid crystal material, deteriorating the response speed of the microwave device. Herein, we explore the viscosity of the nematic liquid crystal from the perspective of liquid crystal compound structure by testing the viscosity of our designed and synthesized forty-two different nematic liquid crystals by using a rotating rheometer at 25 degrees C. To the best of our knowledge, the BPNN-QSAR quantitative structure-activity …

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

The dark matter particle explorer (DAMPE) has been in operation stably for nearly seven years. The key sub-detector of DAMPE is the bismuth germanium oxide (BGO) electromagnetic (EM) calorimeter, which consists of 308 BGO crystal bars. As a long-term apparatus in space, the BGO calorimeter faces continuous radiation bombardment, and therefore, the radiation resistance of the BGO is crucial for the performance of energy measurement. To understand the aging of BGO crystals caused by radiation in space, the stability including attenuation length and absolute energy scale has been examined with on-orbit data over 6.5 years. The aging effects are found in the BGO crystals of the inner and outer parts of the BGO calorimeter. Due to real-time calibration, the BGO calorimeter is still in a stable operation status.

Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering

Electrochemical oxidation is a promising technology to convert ammonia nitrogen to environmental-friendly gaseous nitrogen, but the high cost of the precious metal as an electrode limits its application. Herein, the multi-layer TiO2-NTs/Sb-SnO2/PbO2 electrode, a cheap and efficient dimensionally stable anode (DSA), was constructed for selective electrocatalytic oxidation of ammonia. The surface morphology, crystalline structure, and composition of the TiO2-NTs/Sb-SnO2/PbO2 electrode were investigated by the field emission scanning electron microscope (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD) and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). The synergistic effect of the multi-layer structures of the electrode contributed to a stable structure and efficient electrocatalytic activity. Accelerated lifetime measurements and electrode recycling tests proved that the electrode possessed outstanding stability and long life with …

Phytotaxa

In our paper entitled “Lectotypification of 16 names in Rubus subg. Idaeobatus, 12 names in R. subg. Malachobatus, and 1 name in R. subg. Chamaebatus (Rosaceae)(Phytotaxa 559 (1): 013–024), we erroneously cited the isolectotypes (P00755222 & P00755224) for Rubus croceacanthus Léveillé (1912: 33) on page 15, which we rectify here.

Applied Thermal Engineering

This study describes the successful upgrade of a mechanically pumped CO 2 two-phase cooling system in space by designing a new pump module for the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-02 on the International Space Station. Key factors for mission success are emphasized, including achieving high coolant filling accuracy within 10% of the target and maintaining system stability within±1° C. The impact of adding radiators to improve cooling efficiency is examined, and it is found that operating multi-radiators out-of-phase does not significantly affect system reliability. The centrifugal pump design is shown to allow for better lubricant circulation, while the in-house designed controller incorporates protective measures to prevent cavitation, overheating, and over-current. This research advances the understanding of circulation loop systems and their upgrades in space and demonstrates the potential for extending the …

Physics Letters B

The production of prompt Λ c+ baryons at midrapidity (| y|< 0.5) was measured in central (0–10%) and mid-central (30–50%) Pb–Pb collisions at the center-of-mass energy per nucleon–nucleon pair s NN= 5.02 TeV with the ALICE detector. The results are more precise, more differential in centrality, and reach much lower transverse momentum (p T= 1 GeV/c) with respect to previous measurements performed by the ALICE, STAR, and CMS Collaborations in nucleus–nucleus collisions, allowing for an extrapolation down to p T= 0. The p T-differential Λ c+/D 0 ratio is enhanced with respect to the pp measurement for 4< p T< 8 GeV/c by 3.7 standard deviations (σ), while the p T-integrated ratios are compatible within 1σ. The observed trend is similar to that observed in the strange sector for the Λ/K S 0 ratio. Model calculations including coalescence or statistical hadronization for charm-hadron formation are compared …

Phytotaxa

For the recently published Manfreda arceliensis from Mexico, a binomial in Agave is proposed: Agave arceliensis (Art. Castro, JG Zavala & Cruz Durán) Idrees & Z. Yong Zhang, comb. nov. Additionally, the name Manfreda justosierrana (≡ Agave justosierrana) is lectotypified here.

International Journal of Pavement Engineering

Full-scale Accelerated Pavement testing (APT) has been regarded as an essential step to bridge the gap between research and practice for pavement design because it can fully mimic a large number of heavy wheel loading on pavements. Despite being able to test pavements in an accelerated manner compared to Long-term Performance Monitoring (LTPM), conducting one full-scale APT experiment is still demanding in terms of monetary cost, space, time, etc., and the accessibility to APT facilities is only available in a few countries nowadays. In this study, an exploratory APT study with a down-scaled pavement model in a high-g environment created by geotechnical centrifuge was performed with up to half a million simulated aircraft load repetitions. Through this test, it was proved that the centrifuge APT can reproduce the full-scale airfield pavement responses, including rutting, cracking, material fatigue, etc. The …

Bangladesh Journal of Plant Taxonomy

The genus Rosa L.(1753)(Rosoideae: Rosaceae, Jussieu, 1789), comprises about 150–200 species, distributed mainly throughout the temperate and subtropical regions of the northern hemisphere (Gandoger, 1881; Rehder, 1949; Yü et al., 1985; Matthews, 1995; Ku and Robertson, 2003; Wissemann and Ritz, 2005), except one species from tropical Africa. Approximately, half of the species of Rosa grow in Asia, while in North America and Europe about a quarter of the total number of species occurs in each continent. Species in this genus are economically important as ornamental shrubs and cut flowers, as well as cosmetics and pharmaceutical research (Yi et al., 2007; Jager et al., 2007; Özçelik et al., 2013; Verma et al., 2020). Classical taxonomy (Rehder, 1940; Wissemann, 2003) divided the genus into four subgenera based on the diagnostic characters of fruits structure, ie, R. subgen. Hesperhodos Cockerell …

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The Calorimetric Electron Telescope (CALET), launched to the ISS in August 2015 and in continuous operation since, measures cosmic-ray (CR) electrons, nuclei, and gamma rays. CALET, with its 27 radiation length deep Total Absorption Calorimeter (TASC), measures particle energy, allowing for the determination of spectra and secondary to primary ratios of the more abundant CR nuclei through 28Ni, while the main charge detector (CHD) can measure Ultra-Heavy (UH) CR nuclei through 40Zr. Previous CALET UHCR analyses used a special high duty cycle (~90%) UH trigger that does not require passage through the TASC and used time- and position-dependent detector response corrections based on 14Si and 26Fe and an angle-dependent geomagnetic cutoff rigidity selection to show abundances of even nuclei in agreement with SuperTIGER and ACE-CRIS. The work shown here further improves upon those results by restricting UH events to those that pass through both the TASC and CHD. While this constraint does reduce the number of events to ~1/6 of the original UH trigger analysis, the loss of statistics is compensated by improvements in event selection from an energy-binned charge determination and minimum deposited energy that substitutes for the previous minimum geomagnetic rigidity selection. The results shown here represent 7 years of observation for the abundances of elements from Z=10 to Z=40 relative to 26Fe and are compared to previous measurements from ACE-CRIS, SuperTIGER, and HEAO-3.

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A precise measurement of the cosmic-ray proton spectrum is carried out with the Calorimetric Electron Telescope (CALET) and a sharp softening of the energy spectrum above 10 TeV is observed. CALET, located on the International Space Station, has started data taking in October 2015 and has accumulated data for more than seven years without any serious troubles. CALET is pursuing the direct measurement of the main components of high energy cosmic rays up to ~1 PeV in order to understand the cosmic ray acceleration and propagation. Thanks to the thick calorimeter that corresponds to 30 radiation lengths and to \sim1.3 proton interaction lengths, the proton analysis presented in this paper spans a broad energy range from 50 GeV to 60 TeV. Proton energy resolution is 30-40%, and the residual background is less than 10% in the E < 10 TeV region. In the multi-TeV region, we observed a spectral softening with a spectral index change from -2.6 to -2.9 in addition to the spectral hardening we had previously confirmed with a high significance above a few hundred GeV. The transition to the softer regime is much sharper than the smooth onset of hardening observed at lower energy.

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The CALorimetric Electron Telescope (CALET) cosmic ray detector on the International Space Station (ISS) has been in operation since its launch in 2015. The main instrument, the CALorimeter (CAL), is optimized to observe high-energy electrons up to TeV energies, but its three-storied, composite and thick detector enable us to discriminate gamma rays from overwhelming background of charged cosmic rays. Thus, it is monitoring the gamma ray sky from 1 GeV up to 10 TeV with a field of view of about 2 sr, but the exposure is somewhat non-uniform because of the limitation imposed by the inclination angle (51.6 degree) of the ISS orbit. In this paper we report results from gamma ray observations obtained during its mission for more than seven years with increased statistics compared with previous reports. They include properties of the Galactic diffuse gamma rays, spectra of bright Galactic point sources, and light curves of extragalactic active galactic nuclei, which show good consistencies with Fermi-LAT observations of which energy range overlaps with CALET.

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The CALorimetric Electron Telescope (CALET) is a space-based calorimetric instrument, designed to carry out precision measurements of high energy cosmic rays. Installed on the Japanese Experiment Module - Exposed Facility on the ISS, it is collecting data with excellent performance and no significant interruptions since October 2015. We present the results of a direct measurement of the energy spectrum of cosmic-ray helium, based on about 6.5 years of collected data. It shows significant deviations from a single power law with a progressive hardening around a few hundred GeV followed by a softening in the multi-TeV region. A measurement of the proton to helium flux ratio is also presented. Thanks to the recent update of the CALET proton flux with higher statistics, the p/He ratio is measured with high precision, extending the energy reach of previous measurements with magnetic spectrometers by more than one order of magnitude.

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The study of flux ratios of cosmic-ray primary elements is of particular interest not only to assess the relative abundance of each element, but also to gain a deeper understanding of their propagation in the galaxy. High energy cosmic ray data are the best candidate for this purpose as convection, nuclear decay, and energy degradation can be neglected during their propagation. CALET on the International Space Station has been measuring the flux of several primary elements from proton to nickel for 7 years to date. In this contribution, the flux ratios of heavy primary elements to lighter primaries will be shown, extending the energy range already investigated by previous measurements.

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The ISS-based Calorimetric Electron Telescope (CALET) is directly measuring the energy spectrum of electron+positron cosmic rays up to 20 TeV. Annihilation or decay of dark matter (DM) could produce signatures in the positron and electron cosmic-ray spectra, thus the parameter space of DM candidate models can be probed by studying these messengers. The TeV-region extension of the spectrum provided by CALET is especially important for heavy DM search, since the signature's location in energy is closely correlated with the DM mass.The magnet spectrometer AMS-02 on the other hand provides an exclusive positron-only spectrum below the TeV range. The combined analysis of both data-sets allows for DM search with a sophisticated modeling of the astrophysical background, comprising pulsars as the primary positron source and supernova remnant (SNR) sources providing the majority of the electron flux, in addition to a secondary component. As a refinement over a phenomenological power-law parametrization of the background, overlapping individual point source spectra are used as background for deriving limits on DM annihilation and decay from the CALET all-electron and the AMS-02 positron-only data. The used SNR and pulsar samples combine known nearby sources dominating the spectrum at high energies with randomly generated ones throughout the galaxy. By analyzing a large number of samples with also randomized emission spectra parameters, the expected variability of the background is taken into account, improving the reliability of the obtained limits on DM annihilation cross-section and lifetime.

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In this work, we present a feasibility study aiming at a measurement of the cosmic ray (CR) helium flux utilizing CALET data with a significantly enhanced statistical precision. It is based on a wider geometrical acceptance compared to the current CALET analysis while ensuring a correct identification of charged particles crossing the detector. The expected statistical enhancement for the all-acceptance configuration is nearly a factor of two compared to the previous analysis, over the entire energy range from tens of GeV to hundreds of TeV. Preliminary assessment of efficiencies and background sources has been carried out based on energy-dependent charge selections.

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The International Space Station (ISS) provides an orbital platform for astrophysical missions with lower resource requirements than free-flying satellites. The many uses of the ISS, how7 keVever, can produce unique challenges to the accurate analysis of the data acquired by these instruments. In this work, we present effects observed by the Calorimetric Electron Telescope (CALET), an astroparticle physics mission installed on the Japanese Experiment Module Exposed Facility of the ISS. The CALET calorimeter is sensitive to cosmic-ray electrons and gamma rays from ~1 GeV up to above 10 TeV, and to cosmic-ray hadrons up to ~PeV total energies. The CALET Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (CGBM) is sensitive to X-rays and low-energy gamma rays from 7 keV to 20 MeV. Furthermore, ultra-heavy galactic cosmic-ray (UHGCRs) abundances are measured by CALET using a much more open geometry than is possible for events which shower in the instrument. In this work, we discuss ISS-related issues that affect the observations by CALET. Here we detail the ways these effects are accounted for in the production of scientific results. Finally, the possible impact on future missions such as TIGERISS (Trans-Iron Galactic Element Recorder for the International Space Station; planned for deployment to the ISS in 2026) and mitigation strategies are discussed.

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The Calorimetric Electron Telescope (CALET) is a deep electromagnetic calorimeter designed for the measurement of cosmic-ray electrons on the International Space Station. Deployed on the Exposed Facility of the Japanese Experiment Module since August 2015, it observes cosmic-ray electrons with energies up to above 10 TeV and hadrons up to PeV total energies. Above a few TeV, the decrease in the electron flux and increased contamination by protons in the boosted decision tree (BDT) selection introduce challenges to determination of the flux at the highest energies and the search for signatures of nearby accelerators. To address the proton contamination, we apply a dedicated event-by-event analysis to evaluate the likelihood of each candidate event being a real electron or a contaminating proton. In this work, we detail the implementation of the likelihood analysis based on physically motivated shower parameters in the CALET calorimeter. Large simulated electron and proton datasets tailored to the parameters of the observed candidate events are generated and studied to produce a likelihood parameter for the improved rejection of protons. The results are tied to the BDT selection in the flight data analysis and summarized for the currently identified candidate events. Finally, we discuss an expansion of this work presently under development to use BDTs trained specifically for each candidate to provide an additional figure of merit.

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The CALorimetric Electron Telescope (CALET) cosmic ray detector on the International Space Station (ISS) has been in operation since its launch in 2015. The main instrument, the CALorimeter (CAL), is optimized to observe high-energy electrons up to TeV energies, but its three-storied, composite and thick detector enable us to discriminate gamma rays from overwhelming background of charged cosmic rays. Thus, it is monitoring the gamma ray sky from 1 GeV up to 10 TeV with a field of view of about 2 sr, but the exposure is somewhat non-uniform because of the limitation imposed by the inclination angle (51.6 degree) of the ISS orbit. In this paper we report results from gamma ray observations obtained during its mission for more than seven years with increased statistics compared with previous reports. They include properties of the Galactic diffuse gamma rays, spectra of bright Galactic point sources, and light curves of extragalactic active galactic nuclei, which show good consistencies with Fermi-LAT observations of which energy range overlaps with CALET.

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The ISS-based Calorimetric Electron Telescope (CALET) is directly measuring the energy spectrum of electron+positron cosmic rays up to 20 TeV. Supernova remnants (SNR) are the most likely astrophysical sources to provide the majority of the electron flux, out of which a few nearby young SNR like Vela are expected to dominate in the TeV-region with potentially detectable spectral signatures. Another expected contribution to the spectrum is from pulsars as a primary positron-electron pair source for explanation of the positron excess. Complementary to the CALET all-electron spectrum, the positron-only spectrum measured by the magnet spectrometer AMS-02 below the TeV range provides detailed information on this component. An interpretation of the CALET and AMS-02 data by overlapping spectra from individual pulsar and SNR point sources is presented, combining sources known from electromagnetic wave observations with further randomly generated ones spread throughout the galaxy. Based on the study of a large number of samples with randomized source locations and emission spectra parameters, best fitting ranges and constraints for these parameters, as well as predictions for the spectrum beyond the so far measured energy range have been derived.

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The study of flux ratios of cosmic-ray primary elements is of particular interest not only to assess the relative abundance of each element, but also to gain a deeper understanding of their propagation in the galaxy. High energy cosmic ray data are the best candidate for this purpose as convection, nuclear decay, and energy degradation can be neglected during their propagation. CALET on the International Space Station has been measuring the flux of several primary elements from proton to nickel for 7 years to date. In this contribution, the flux ratios of heavy primary elements to lighter primaries will be shown, extending the energy range already investigated by previous measurements.

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The CALorimetric Electron Telescope (CALET) space experiment is a high-energy astroparticle physics mission installed on the International Space Station (ISS). The primary goals of the CALET mission include studying the details of galactic cosmic-ray acceleration and propagation, and searching for possible nearby sources of high-energy electrons and dark matter signatures. The CALET experiment is measuring the flux of cosmic-ray electrons (including positrons) to 20 TeV, gamma-rays to 10 TeV and nuclei with Z=1 to 40 up to 1,000 TeV. The instrument consists of two layers of segmented plastic scintillators for the identification of cosmic-rays via a measurement of their charge (CHD), a 3 radiation length thick tungsten-scintillating fiber imaging calorimeter (IMC) and a 27 radiation length thick lead-tungstate calorimeter (TASC). The instrument was launched on August 19, 2015 to the ISS and installed on the Japanese Experiment Module-Exposed Facility (JEM-EF). Since the start of operations in mid-October, 2015, CALET has been in continuous observation mode over 7.5 years and mainly triggering on high energy (>10 GeV) cosmic-ray showers without any major interruption. The number of triggered events over 10 GeV is nearly 1.86 billion events as of June 30, 2023. Here, we present the highlights of the CALET latest results, including the electron + positron energy spectrum, the spectra of protons and other nuclei, gamma-ray observations, as well as the characterization of on-orbit performance. Some results on the electromagnetic counterpart search for LIGO/Virgo gravitational wave events and the observations of solar modulation and …

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The Calorimetric Electron Telescope (CALET), launched to the ISS in August 2015 and in continuous operation since, measures cosmic-ray (CR) electrons, nuclei, and gamma rays. CALET, with its 27 radiation length deep Total Absorption Calorimeter (TASC), measures particle energy, allowing for the determination of spectra and secondary to primary ratios of the more abundant CR nuclei through 28Ni, while the main charge detector (CHD) can measure Ultra-Heavy (UH) CR nuclei through 40Zr. Previous CALET UHCR analyses used a special high duty cycle (~90%) UH trigger that does not require passage through the TASC and used time- and position-dependent detector response corrections based on 14Si and 26Fe and an angle-dependent geomagnetic cutoff rigidity selection to show abundances of even nuclei in agreement with SuperTIGER and ACE-CRIS. The work shown here further improves upon those results by restricting UH events to those that pass through both the TASC and CHD. While this constraint does reduce the number of events to ~1/6 of the original UH trigger analysis, the loss of statistics is compensated by improvements in event selection from an energy-binned charge determination and minimum deposited energy that substitutes for the previous minimum geomagnetic rigidity selection. The results shown here represent 7 years of observation for the abundances of elements from Z=10 to Z=40 relative to 26Fe and are compared to previous measurements from ACE-CRIS, SuperTIGER, and HEAO-3.

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Recent results from precision measurements at the NA62 experiment IRIS IRIS Home Sfoglia Macrotipologie & tipologie Autore Titolo Riviste Serie Settore Scientifico Disciplinare Tipologia ISI-CRUI Afferenza IT Italiano Italiano English English LOGIN 1.IRIS 2.Pubblicazioni 3.02 - Intervento a convegno Akmete, A., Aliberti, R., Ambrosino, F., Ammendola, R., Angelucci, B., Antonelli, A., et al. (2024). Recent results from precision measurements at the NA62 experiment. ??????? it.cilea.surplus.oa.citation.tipologie.CitationProceedings.prensentedAt ??????? The European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics (EPS-HEP2023), Hamburg [10.22323/1.449.0336]. Recent results from precision measurements at the NA62 experiment V. Bonaiuto; F. Sargeni; 2024-01-01 Scheda breve Scheda completa Scheda completa (DC) Nome del convegno The European Physical Society Conference on High Energy …

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The latest LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA observing run (O4) started on May 24 in 2023. Many ground and space instruments have participated in follow-up observation and search for electromagnetic counterparts of gravitational waves. Calorimetric Electron Telescope (CALET) on the Interna- tional Space Station has also searched for electromagnetic counterparts since the observation started in October 2015. Although CALET is a payload for direct measurement of high-energy cosmic rays, CALET has the capability to observe high-energy gamma-rays above 1 GeV with the Calorimeter (CAL) and X-rays / gamma rays in the energy range from 7 keV to 20 MeV with the CALET Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (CGBM). We searched for electromagnetic counterparts of gravitational wave events in the last LIGO/Virgo observing run (O3). Although no candidate was found in CALET data in O3, CAL and CGBM estimated upper limits of gamma-ray / X-ray flux for the gravitational waves in O3. We have been searching for electromagnetic counterparts of gravitational waves in O4 with improved and automated analysis pipelines to deal with many events with high event rates. As of the end of June 2023, the LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA collaboration reported 169 events via the GCN/LVC NOTICE, and 15 of 169 events were reported to GCN Circulars as significant events. Although CGBM and CAL searched for signals associated with the significant events, no candidates were found around the event time of the significant events. We obtained CAL upper limits for eight significant events of which localization high probability region overlapped with the CAL field of view.

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The CALorimetric Electron Telescope (CALET) space experiment is a high-energy astroparticle physics mission installed on the International Space Station (ISS). The primary goals of the CALET mission include studying the details of galactic cosmic-ray acceleration and propagation, and searching for possible nearby sources of high-energy electrons and dark matter signatures. The CALET experiment is measuring the flux of cosmic-ray electrons (including positrons) to 20 TeV, gamma-rays to 10 TeV and nuclei with Z=1 to 40 up to 1,000 TeV. The instrument consists of two layers of segmented plastic scintillators for the identification of cosmic-rays via a measurement of their charge (CHD), a 3 radiation length thick tungsten-scintillating fiber imaging calorimeter (IMC) and a 27 radiation length thick lead-tungstate calorimeter (TASC). The instrument was launched on August 19, 2015 to the ISS and installed on the Japanese Experiment Module-Exposed Facility (JEM-EF). Since the start of operations in mid-October, 2015, CALET has been in continuous observation mode over 7.5 years and mainly triggering on high energy (>10 GeV) cosmic-ray showers without any major interruption. The number of triggered events over 10 GeV is nearly 1.86 billion events as of June 30, 2023. Here, we present the highlights of the CALET latest results, including the electron + positron energy spectrum, the spectra of protons and other nuclei, gamma-ray observations, as well as the characterization of on-orbit performance. Some results on the electromagnetic counterpart search for LIGO/Virgo gravitational wave events and the observations of solar modulation and …

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The CALorimetric Electron Telescope (CALET) has been collecting data on the International Space Station for more than seven years since October 2015. CALET is an all-calorimetric instrument with a total vertical thickness of 30 radiation lengths and fine imaging capability, optimized for the measurement of the electron and positron (all-electron) spectrum well into the TeV energy region. The observed event statistics have increased more than three times since its last publication about the all-electron spectrum to 4.8 TeV in 2018. Based on Monte Carlo simulations, the data analysis effectively rejects background protons, resulting in less than 10% contamination up to the TeV region. The expected systematic errors are investigated. The significance of the cutoff at the TeV region in the energy spectrum, which is expected as a result of radiation loss during propagation, has increased to over 6 sigma. By observing the detailed structure in the TeV region of the energy spectrum, we will investigate on the presence of possible nearby cosmic-ray sources. In this paper, we will present the updated all-electron spectrum, and briefly discuss its interpretations.

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Searches for LF/LN violation and hidden sectors in kaon decays at the NA62 experiment IRIS IRIS Home Sfoglia Macrotipologie & tipologie Autore Titolo Riviste Serie Settore Scientifico Disciplinare Tipologia ISI-CRUI Afferenza IT Italiano Italiano English English LOGIN 1.IRIS 2.Pubblicazioni 3.02 - Intervento a convegno Akmete, A., Aliberti, R., Ambrosino, F., Ammendola, R., Angelucci, B., Antonelli, A., et al. (2024). Searches for LF/LN violation and hidden sectors in kaon decays at the NA62 experiment. ??????? it.cilea.surplus.oa.citation.tipologie.CitationProceedings.prensentedAt ??????? The European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics (EPS-HEP2023), Hamburg, Germany [10.22323/1.449.0335]. Searches for LF/LN violation and hidden sectors in kaon decays at the NA62 experiment V. Bonaiuto; F. Sargeni; 2024-01-01 Scheda breve Scheda completa Scheda completa (DC) Nome del …

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The CALorimetric Electron Telescope (CALET) has been collecting data on the International Space Station for more than seven years since October 2015. CALET is an all-calorimetric instrument with a total vertical thickness of 30 radiation lengths and fine imaging capability, optimized for the measurement of the electron and positron (all-electron) spectrum well into the TeV energy region. The observed event statistics have increased more than three times since its last publication about the all-electron spectrum to 4.8 TeV in 2018. Based on Monte Carlo simulations, the data analysis effectively rejects background protons, resulting in less than 10% contamination up to the TeV region. The expected systematic errors are investigated. The significance of the cutoff at the TeV region in the energy spectrum, which is expected as a result of radiation loss during propagation, has increased to over 6 sigma. By observing the detailed structure in the TeV region of the energy spectrum, we will investigate on the presence of possible nearby cosmic-ray sources. In this paper, we will present the updated all-electron spectrum, and briefly discuss its interpretations.