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Hadronic Forward(HF) detector is one of the sub-detectors of the CMS. It plays an important role in the measurement of forward jets and missing energy. HF is situated on both sides of the CMS interaction point, at about $\pm$11 m, covers…
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We compare failure distributions of quantum error correction circuits for stochastic errors and coherent errors. We utilize a fully coherent simulation of a fault tolerant quantum error correcting circuit for a $d=3$ Steane and surface…
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Safety-critical systems such as those in automotive, avionics and space, require appropriate safety measures to avoid silent data corruption upon random hardware errors such as those caused by radiation and other types of electromagnetic…
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Upgrading the existing analog instrumentation and control (IC) systems to state-of-the-art digital IC (DIC) systems will greatly benefit existing light-water reactors (LWRs). However, the issue of software common cause failure (CCF) remains…
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Security is one of the biggest concern in power system operation. Recently, the emerging cyber security threats to operational functions of power systems arouse high public attention, and cybersecurity vulnerability thus become an emerging…
The determination of the centrality of nuclear collision or the value of the impact parameter of heavy nuclei is of great importance for the analysis of all experimental data and comparison with theory. One method is to measure the number…
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Automated damage detection is an integral component of each structural health monitoring (SHM) system. Typically, measurements from various sensors are collected and reduced to damage-sensitive features, and diagnostic values are generated…
State estimation has long been a fundamental problem in signal processing and control areas. The main challenge is to design filters with ability to reject or attenuate various disturbances. With the arrival of big data era, the…
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Precise measurement of frequency sensitivity coefficients (FSCs) of some physical effects contributing to uncertainty is an important work in type-B uncertainty (u_B) evaluation of atomic frequency standards. We proposed a method based on…