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High-precision particle tracking devices allow for two-dimensional analyses of the material budget distribution of particle detectors and their periphery. In this contribution, the material budget of different targets is reconstructed from…

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Emittance Minimization for Aberration Correction II: Physics-informed Bayesian Optimization of an Electron Microscope

Aberration-corrected Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy (STEM) has become an essential tool in understanding materials at the atomic scale. However, tuning the aberration corrector to produce a sub-{\AA}ngstr\"om probe is a complex…

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Analysis of Polarimetry Data with Angular Uncertainties

For a track based polarimeter, such as the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE), the sensitivity to polarization depends on the modulation factor, which is a strong function of energy. In previous work, a likelihood method was…

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Alignment sensing and control for squeezed vacuum states of light

Beam alignment is an important practical aspect of the application of squeezed states of light. Misalignments in the detection of squeezed light result in a reduction of the observable squeezing level. In the case of squeezed vacuum fields…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-01-20 Emil Schreiber , Kathrine L. Dooley , Henning Vahlbruch , Christoph Affeldt , Aparna Bisht , Jonathan R. Leong , James Lough , Mirko Prijatelj , Jacob Slutsky , Michal Was , Holger Wittel , Karsten Danzmann , Hartmut Grote

Calibration of the GLAST Burst Monitor detectors

The GLAST Burst Monitor (GBM) will augment the capabilities of GLAST for the detection of cosmic gamma-ray bursts by extending the energy range (20 MeV to > 300 GeV) of the Large Area Telescope (LAT) towards lower energies by 2…

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Maximization of the degree of polarization to estimate the polarization orientation angle from PolSAR data: An insight into the real and complex rotation of the coherency matrix

The angle of rotation of any target about the radar line of sight (LOS) is known as the polarization orientation angle. The orientation angle is found to be non-zero for undulating terrains and man-made targets oriented away from the radar…

Classical Physics · Physics 2017-04-26 Avik Bhattacharya

The DAMPE excess and gamma-ray constraints

The direct measurements of the cosmic electron-positron spectrum around 1 TeV made by DAMPE have induced many theoretical speculations about possible excesses in the data above the standard astrophysical predictions that might have the dark…

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Scalar dark matter, Type II Seesaw and the DAMPE cosmic ray $e^+ + e^-$ excess

The DArk Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) has reported a measurement of the flux of high energy cosmic ray electrons plus positrons (CREs) in the energy range between $25$ GeV and $4.6$ TeV. With unprecedented high energy resolution, the…

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Detection of X-ray Polarization from the Blazar 1ES 1959+650 with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer

Observations of linear polarization in the 2-8 keV energy range with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) explore the magnetic field geometry and dynamics of the regions generating non-thermal radiation in relativistic jets of…

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Observation of a spectral hardening in cosmic ray boron spectrum with the DAMPE space mission

Secondary cosmic ray fluxes are important probes of the propagation and interaction of high-energy particles in the Galaxy. Recent measurements of primary and secondary cosmic ray nuclei have revealed unexpected spectral features that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-19 DAMPE Collaboration , F. Alemanno , C. Altomare , Q. An , P. Azzarello , F. C. T. Barbato , P. Bernardini , X. J. Bi , H. Boutin , I. Cagnoli , M. S. Cai , E. Casilli , E. Catanzani , J. Chang , D. Y. Chen , J. L. Chen , Z. F. Chen , Z. X. Chen , P. Coppin , M. Y. Cui , T. S. Cui , Y. X. Cui , I. De Mitri , F. de Palma , A. Di Giovanni , T. K. Dong , Z. X. Dong , G. Donvito , D. Droz , J. L. Duan , K. K. Duan , R. R. Fan , Y. Z. Fan , F. Fang , K. Fang , C. Q. Feng , L. Feng , J. M. Frieden , P. Fusco , M. Gao , F. Gargano , E. Ghose , K. Gong , Y. Z. Gong , D. Y. Guo , J. H. Guo , S. X. Han , Y. M. Hu , G. S. Huang , X. Y. Huang , Y. Y. Huang , M. Ionica , L. Y. Jiang , Y. Z. Jiang , W. Jiang , J. Kong , A. Kotenko , D. Kyratzis , S. J. Lei , W. H. Li , W. L. Li , X. Li , X. Q. Li , Y. M. Liang , C. M. Liu , H. Liu , J. Liu , S. B. Liu , Y. Liu , F. Loparco , M. Ma , P. X. Ma , T. Ma , X. Y. Ma , G. Marsella , M. N. Mazziotta , D. Mo , X. Y. Niu , A. Parenti , W. X. Peng , X. Y. Peng , C. Perrina , E. Putti-Garcia , R. Qiao , J. N. Rao , R. Sarkar , P. Savina , A. Serpolla , Z. Shangguan , W. H. Shen , Z. Q. Shen , Z. T. Shen , L. Silveri , J. X. Song , M. Stolpovskiy , H. Su , M. Su , H. R. Sun , Z. Y. Sun , A. Surdo , X. J. Teng , A. Tykhonov , J. Z. Wang , L. G. Wang , S. Wang , X. L. Wang , Y. F. Wang , Y. Wang , D. M. Wei , J. J. Wei , Y. F. Wei , D. Wu , J. Wu , S. S. Wu , X. Wu , Z. Q. Xia , E. H. Xu , H. T. Xu , J. Xu , Z. H. Xu , Z. L. Xu , Z. Z. Xu , G. F. Xue , H. B. Yang , P. Yang , Y. Q. Yang , H. J. Yao , Y. H. Yu , Q. Yuan , C. Yue , J. J. Zang , S. X. Zhang , W. Z. Zhang , Yan Zhang , Yi Zhang , Y. J. Zhang , Y. L. Zhang , Y. P. Zhang , Y. Q. Zhang , Z. Zhang , Z. Y. Zhang , C. Zhao , H. Y. Zhao , X. F. Zhao , C. Y. Zhou , Y. Zhu

Probabilistic Scan Matching: Bayesian Pose Estimation from Point Clouds

Estimating position and orientation change of a mobile platform from two consecutive point clouds provided by a high-resolution sensor is a key problem in autonomous navigation. In particular, scan matching algorithms aim to find the…

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A quantum theory of the alignment and polarization of very small dust grains

Context. Anomalous microwave emission (AME) is a component of interstellar medium emission peaking at 10-60 GHz. Its polarization is both a CMB foreground and a probe of the alignment physics of very small dust grains. Aims. We quantify…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-30 Boy Lankhaar

The Disp Method for Analysing Large Zenith Angle Gamma-Ray Data

The Disp method is an algorithm that is used for reconstruction of primary gamma ray direction in ground- based atmospheric Cherenkov telescope experiments -measuring very-high-energy (VHE) gamma rays in the energy range between 100GeV and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 G. D. Şentürk

Model-independent analysis of the DAMPE excess

The Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) recently released measurements of the electron spectrum with a hint of a narrow peak at about 1.4 TeV. We investigate dark matter (DM) models that could produce such a signal by annihilation in a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-02-22 Peter Athron , Csaba Balazs , Andrew Fowlie , Yang Zhang

INTEGRAL timing and localization performance

In this letter we report on the accuracy of the attitude, misalignment, orbit and time correlation which are used to perform scientific analyses of the INTEGRAL data. The boresight attitude during science pointings has an accuracy of 3…

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Flavor Structure of the Cosmic-Ray Electron/Positron Excesses at DAMPE

The Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) satellite detector announced its first result for measuring the cosmic-ray electron/positron (CRE) energy spectrum up to 4.6TeV, including a tentative peak-like event excess at (1.3-1.5)TeV. In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-10 Shao-Feng Ge , Hong-Jian He , Yu-Chen Wang

Measurement of the cosmic p+He energy spectrum from 50 GeV to 0.5 PeV with the DAMPE space mission

Recent observations of the light component of the cosmic-ray spectrum have revealed unexpected features that motivate further and more precise measurements up to the highest energies. The Dark Matter Particle Explorer is a satellite-based…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-15 DAMPE Collaboration , F. Alemanno , C. Altomare , Q. An , P. Azzarello , F. C. T. Barbato , P. Bernardini , X. J. Bi , I. Cagnoli , M. S. Cai , E. Casilli , E. Catanzani , J. Chang , D. Y. Chen , J. L. Chen , Z. F. Chen , P. Coppin , M. Y. Cui , T. S. Cui , Y. X. Cui , H. T. Dai , A. De Benedittis , I. De Mitri , F. de Palma , M. Deliyergiyev , A. Di Giovanni , M. Di Santo , Q. Ding , T. K. Dong , Z. X. Dong , G. Donvito , D. Droz , J. L. Duan , K. K. Duan , R. R. Fan , Y. Z. Fan , F. Fang , K. Fang , C. Q. Feng , L. Feng , M. Fernandez Alonso , J. M. Frieden , P. Fusco , M. Gao , F. Gargano , K. Gong , Y. Z. Gong , D. Y. Guo , J. H. Guo , S. X. Han , Y. M. Hu , G. S. Huang , X. Y. Huang , Y. Y. Huang , M. Ionica , L. Y. Jiang , Y. Z. Jiang , W. Jiang , J. Kong , A. Kotenko , D. Kyratzis , S. J. Lei , W. H. Li , W. L. Li , X. Li , X. Q. Li , Y. M. Liang , C. M. Liu , H. Liu , J. Liu , S. B. Liu , Y. Liu , F. Loparco , C. N. Luo , M. Ma , P. X. Ma , T. Ma , X. Y. Ma , G. Marsella , M. N. Mazziotta , D. Mo , M. Muñoz Salinas , X. Y. Niu , X. Pan , A. Parenti , W. X. Peng , X. Y. Peng , C. Perrina , E. Putti-Garcia , R. Qiao , J. N. Rao , A. Ruina , Z. Shangguan , W. H. Shen , Z. Q. Shen , Z. T. Shen , L. Silveri , J. X. Song , M. Stolpovskiy , H. Su , M. Su , H. R. Sun , Z. Y. Sun , A. Surdo , X. J. Teng , A. Tykhonov , J. Z. Wang , L. G. Wang , S. Wang , S. X. Wang , X. L. Wang , Y. Wang , Y. F. Wang , Y. Z. Wang , Z. M. Wang , D. M. Wei , J. J. Wei , Y. F. Wei , D. Wu , J. Wu , L. B. Wu , S. S. Wu , X. Wu , Z. Q. Xia , H. T. Xu , J. Xu , Z. H. Xu , Z. L. Xu , E. H. Xu , Z. Z. Xu , G. F. Xue , H. B. Yang , P. Yang , Y. Q. Yang , H. J. Yao , Y. H. Yu , G. W. Yuan , Q. Yuan , C. Yue , J. J. Zang , S. X. Zhang , W. Z. Zhang , Yan Zhang , Yi Zhang , Y. J. Zhang , Y. L. Zhang , Y. P. Zhang , Y. Q. Zhang , Z. Zhang , Z. Y. Zhang , C. Zhao , H. Y. Zhao , X. F. Zhao , C. Y. Zhou , Y. Zhu

New full-sky studies of the distribution of ultra-high-energy cosmic-ray arrival directions

Ground-based full-sky studies of the angular distribution of arrival directions of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays require combining data from different observatories, such as the Pierre Auger Observatory (Auger) and the Telescope Array (TA),…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-22 A. Gálvez Ureña , L. Anchordoqui , M. Bianciotto , P. Biermann , T. Bister , J. Biteau , L. Caccianiga , O. Deligny , L. Deval , A. di Matteo , U. G. Giaccari , G. Golup , R. Higuchi , J. Kim , M. Kuznetsov , J. P. Lundquist , F. M. Mariani , G. Rubtsov , P. Tinyakov , F. Urban

Dark Matter visible by the EGRET Excess of Diffuse Galactic Gamma Rays?

The public data from the EGRET space telescope on diffuse galactic gamma rays in the energy range from 0.1 to 10 GeV show an excess for energies above 1 GeV in comparison with the expectations from conventional galactic models. This excess…

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Amplified Doppler shift observed in diffraction images as function of the COBE "ether drift" direction

We report results on an ``one-way light path'' laser diffraction experiment as a function of the laser beam alignment relative to the Earth's velocity vector obtained by COBE measurements of the Doppler shift in the cosmic microwave…

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