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Computer model calibration is a crucial step in building a reliable computer model. In the face of massive physical observations, a fast estimation for the calibration parameters is urgently needed. To alleviate the computational burden, we…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-11-24 Shurui Lv , Yan Wang , Jun Yu

Lens time delays are a powerful probe of cosmology, provided that the gravitational potential of the main deflector can be modeled with sufficient precision. Recent work has shown that this can be achieved by detailed modeling of the host…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-07 Xiao-Lei Meng , Tommaso Treu , Adriano Agnello , Matthew W. Auger , Kai Liao , Philip J. Marshall

We present the first two-dimensional (2D) optical Thomson scattering measurements of electron density and temperature in laser-produced plasmas. The novel instrument directly measures $n_e(x,y)$ and $T_e(x,y)$ in two dimensions over large…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-09-12 H. Zhang , J. J. Pilgram , C. G. Constantin , L. Rovige , P. V. Heuer , S. Ghazaryan , M. Kaloyan , R. S. Dorst , D. B. Schaeffer , C. Niemann

Deformable object manipulation remains a challenging task in robotics research. Conventional techniques for parameter inference and state estimation typically rely on a precise definition of the state space and its dynamics. While this is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Rika Antonova , Jingyun Yang , Priya Sundaresan , Dieter Fox , Fabio Ramos , Jeannette Bohg

Ultracold fermionic atoms in optical lattices offer pristine realizations of Hubbard models, which are fundamental to modern condensed matter physics. Despite significant advancements, the accessible temperatures in these optical lattice…

A next-generation neutrino oscillation experiment using reactor neutrinos could give important information on the size of mixing angle $\theta_{13}$. The motivation and goals for a new reactor measurement are discussed in the context of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-08-23 M. H. Shaevitz , J. M. Link

Computing the inverse covariance matrix (or precision matrix) of large data vectors is crucial in weak lensing (and multi-probe) analyses of the large scale structure of the universe. Analytically computed covariances are noise-free and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-06 Oliver Friedrich , Tim Eifler

We present a novel learning-based method to build a differentiable computational model of a real fluorescence microscope. Our model can be used to calibrate a real optical setup directly from data samples and to engineer point spread…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-12 Josue Page , Paolo Favaro

Precision measurements of neutron properties, like its permanent electric dipole moment, rely on understanding complex experimental setups in detail. We show how the properties of stored and transported ultracold neutron ensembles can be…

High precision astrometry provides the foundation to resolve many fundamental problems in astrophysics. The application of astrometric studies spans a wide range of fields, and has undergone enormous growth in recent years. This is as a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-30 Maria Rioja , Richard Dodson

We present optical Thomson scattering measurements of electron density and temperature in a large-scale (~2 cm) exploding laser plasma produced by irradiating a solid target with a high energy (5-10 J) laser pulse at high repetition rate (1…

Computer simulations that demonstrate the valueof novel approaches are crucial to developing more flexibleand robust power systems operations with high penetrations ofrenewable energy at multiple geographic and temporal scales.However,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-01 Jose Daniel Lara , Jonathan T. Lee , Duncan Callaway , Bri-Mathias Hodge

Through the last three decades, accurate simulation of the interactions of particles with matter and modeling of detector geometries has proven to be of critical importance to the success of the international high-energy physics (HEP)…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-08-17 V. Daniel Elvira

The role of numerical accuracy in training and evaluating neural network-based potential energy surfaces is examined for different experimental observables. For observables that require third- and fourth-order derivatives of the total…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-11-30 Silvan Käser , Markus Meuwly

The paper describes a method for measuring the thermal diffusivity of materials having a high thermal conductivity. The apparatus is rather simple and low-cost, being therefore suitable in a laboratory for undergraduate students of…

Physics Education · Physics 2014-01-15 Amelia Carolina Sparavigna

In the present work, we consider multi-scale computation and convergence for nonlinear time-dependent thermo-mechanical equations of inhomogeneous shells possessing temperature-dependent material properties and orthogonal periodic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-23 Hao Dong , Xiaofei Guan , Yufeng Nie

Quantum metrology promises measurement precision beyond the classical limit by using suitably tailored quantum states and detection strategies. However, scaling up this advantage is experimentally challenging, due to the difficulty of…

A new method to correct the emulsion deformation, mainly produced in the development process, is developed to recover the high accuracy of nuclear emulsion as a tracking device. The method is based on a precise photomask and a careful…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-11 M. Kimura , H. Ishida , H. Shibuya , S. Ogawa , T. Matsuo , C. Fukushima , G. Takahashi , K. Kuge , Y. Sato , I. Tezuka , S. Mikado

Large-eddy simulation developments and validations are presented for an improved simulation of turbulent internal flows. Numerical methods are proposed according to two competing criteria: numerical qualities (precision and spectral…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2008-01-15 Jérôme Boudet , Joëlle Caro , L. Shao , Emmanuel Lévêque

The study of neutrino interactions has recently experienced a renaissance, motivated by the fact that neutrino oscillation experiments depend critically on an accurate models of neutrino interactions. These models have to predict not only…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-06-10 Deborah A. Harris