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The authors demonstrate selective detection of terahertz radiation employing beryllium delta-doped GaAs/AlAs multiple quantum wells. The sensitivity up to 1 V/W within 4.2-7.3 THz range at liquid helium temperatures is reached. The…

We summarize the quantitative results of our analysis [1] of top-pair photoproduction in semileptonic mode in $pe$ collisions at the LHeC and FCC-he. We define three photoproduction regions, based on the rapidity acceptance range of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-21 Antonio O. Bouzas , F. Larios

Recent X-ray observations of merger shocks in galaxy clusters have shown that the post-shock plasma is two-temperature, with the protons hotter than the electrons. By means of two-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations, we study the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-27 Xinyi Guo , Lorenzo Sironi , Ramesh Narayan

The dependence on applied electric field ($0 - 40$ kV/cm) of the scintillation light produced by fast electrons and $\alpha$ particles stopped in liquid helium in the temperature range of 0.44 K to 3.12 K is reported. For both types of…

In the past few years, the ALMA radio telescope has become available for solar observations. ALMA diagnostics of the solar atmosphere are of high interest because of the theoretically expected linear relationship between the brightness…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-08 Juan Martinez-Sykora , Bart De Pontieu , Jaime de la Cruz Rodriguez , Georgios Chintzoglou

Heating of charged particles via collisionless shocks, while ubiquitous in the universe, is an intriguing yet puzzling plasma phenomenon. One outstanding question is how electrons and ions approach an equilibrium after they were heated to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-16 Masahiro Ichihashi , Aya Bamba , Yuichi Kato , Satoru Katsuda , Hiromasa Suzuki , Tomoaki Kasuga , Hirokazu Odaka , Kazuhiro Nakazawa

Ultraviolet spectroscopy of the extended solar corona is a powerful tool for measuring the properties of protons, electrons, and heavy ions in the accelerating solar wind. The large coronal holes that expand up from the north and south…

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Polycrystalline samples of Er$_{1-x}$Ho$_x$NiSb ($x$ = 0, 0.2, 0.3, 0.5, 0.7, 0.8, 1) were characterized by means of x-ray powder diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and optical metallography. The results proved the…

Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) are black holes that may have been created in the early Universe and could be as large as supermassive black holes or as small as the Planck scale. It is believed that a black hole has a temperature inversely…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-17 T. N. Ukwatta , J. T. Linnemann , D. Stump J. H. MacGibbon , S. S. Marinelli , T. Yapici , K. Tollefson

The atomic hydrogen formation channels of the C + C2H2 reaction have been investigated using a continuous supersonic flow reactor over the 52 K 296 K temperature range. H-atoms were detected directly at 121.567 nm by vacuum ultraviolet…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-03 Kevin M. Hickson , Jean-Christophe Loison , Valentine Wakelam

In silicon sensors high densities of electron-hole pairs result in a change of the current pulse shape and spatial distribution of the collected charge compared to the situation in presence of low charge carrier densities. This paper…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-08-14 Julian Becker , Klaus Gärtner , Robert Klanner , Rainer Richter

High-harmonic generation in solids has emerged as a powerful probe of ultrafast electron dynamics and lattice motion, and recent theoretical work has suggested that thermally driven lattice fluctuations can act as an effective source of…

Point-contact Andreev reflection spectroscopy at low temperatures and high magnetic fields has been performed on a noncentrosymmetric La$_3$Se$_4$ superconductor with a critical temperature $T_c$ = 8 K. Two superconducting energy gaps…

Semi-insulating, undoped, Liquid Encapsulated Czochralski (SI-U LEC) GaAs detectors have been irradiated with 1MeV neutrons, 24GeV/c protons, and 300MeV/c pions. The maximum fluences used were 6, 3, and 1.8~10$^{14}$ particles/cm$^{2}$…

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Recent angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy (ARPES) measurements of the hole effective mass in CsPbBr$_3$ revealed an enhancement of $\sim$50 % compared to the bare mass computed from first principles for CsPbBr$_3$ at $T = 0 K$. This…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-13 Bai-Qing Zhao , Xuan-Yan Chen , Chuan-Nan Li , Jinshan Li , Chris G. Van de Walle , Xie Zhang

We have developed a new detector of photons and charged particles- a hole-type structure with electrodes made of a double layered resistive material: a thin low resistive layer coated with a layer having a much higher resistivity. One of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Charpak , P. Benaben , P. Breuil , A. Di Mauro , P. Martinengo , V. Peskov

Photon absorption in a semiconductor produces bright excitons that recombine very fast into photons. We here show that in a quantum dot set close to a p-doped reservoir, this absorption can produce a dark duo, i.e., an electron-hole pair…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Shiue-Yuan Shiau , Benoit Eble , Valia Voliotis , Monique Combescot

Assuming only statistical mechanics and general relativity, we calculate the maximal temperature of gas of particles placed in AdS space-time. If two particles with a given center of mass energy come close enough, according to classical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-08 De-Chang Dai , Dejan Stojkovic

The search for light dark matter and cosmic primordial neutrinos necessitates detectors with sub-millielectronvolt (sub-meV) energy thresholds. While superconducting quantum sensors have approached this sensitivity, they often face…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-02-05 Aiqin Gao , Yiming Guo , Hengyu Wang , Xilei Sun , Xuegang Li , Junhua Wang , Junguang Lv , Guopu Qu , Lei Cao

Due to the increased commercial availability, wide-bandgap semiconductors and their radiation hardness have recently received increased interest from the particle physics community. 4H-Silicon Carbide (SiC), especially, is an attractive…

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