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ESS$\nu$SB is a proposed neutrino super-beam project at the ESS facility. We study the performance of this setup in the presence of a light eV-scale sterile neutrino, considering 540 km baseline with 2 years (8 years) of $\nu$ ($\bar\nu$)…
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Efficient removal of impulsive noise (IN) from received signal is essential in many communication applications. In this paper, we propose a two stage IN mitigation approach for orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM)-based…
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Dark matter (DM) remains one of the most compelling unresolved problems in fundamental physics, motivating the search for new detection approaches. We propose a network-based quantum sensor architecture to enhance sensitivity to ultralight…
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