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Indirect dark matter searches targeting dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) have matured rapidly during the past decade. This has been because of the substantial increase in kinematic data sets from the dSphs, the new dSphs that have been…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-23 Louis E. Strigari

X-ray ptychography is one of the versatile techniques for nanometer resolution imaging. The magnitude of the diffraction patterns is recorded on a detector and the phase of the diffraction patterns is estimated using phase retrieval…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-21 Prasan Shedligeri , Florian Schiffers , Semih Barutcu , Pablo Ruiz , Aggelos K Katsaggelos , Oliver Cossairt

Dark Matter (DM) is an elusive form of matter which has been postulated to explain astronomical observations through its gravitational effects on stars and galaxies, gravitational lensing of light around these, and through its imprint on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-07 James Bateman , Ian McHardy , Alexander Merle , Tim R. Morris , Hendrik Ulbricht

Soft x-ray microscopy plays an important role in modern spintronics. However, the achievable resolution of most x-ray magnetic imaging experiments is above 10 nm, limiting access to fundamental and technologically relevant length scales.…

We introduce dark mediator Dark matter (dmDM) where the dark and visible sectors are connected by at least one light mediator $\phi$ carrying the same dark charge that stabilizes DM. $\phi$ is coupled to the Standard Model via an operator…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-12-30 David Curtin , Ze'ev Surujon , Yuhsin Tsai

Dark matter with MeV scale mass is difficult to detect with standard direct search detectors. However, they can be searched for by considering the up-scattering of kinetic energies by cosmic rays. Because the dark matter density is higher…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-01 Keiko I. Nagao , Satoshi Higashino , Tatsuhiro Naka , Kentaro Miuchi

This paper proposes a non-computational method of counteracting the effect of image degradation introduced by the diffraction phenomenon in lensless microscopy. All the optical images (whether focused by lenses or not) are diffraction…

Optics · Physics 2021-04-08 Sanjeev Kumar , Manjunatha Mahadevappa , Pranab Kumar Dutta

The classical method of determining the atomic structure of complex molecules by analyzing diffraction patterns is currently undergoing drastic developments. Modern techniques for producing extremely bright and coherent X-ray lasers allow a…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2015-10-12 Tomas Ekeberg , Stefan Engblom , Jing Liu

The detection of Dark Matter (DM) remains a significant challenge in particle physics. This study exploits advanced machine learning models to improve detection capabilities of liquid xenon time projection chamber experiments, utilizing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-17 Daniel E. Lopez-Fogliani , Andres D. Perez , Roberto Ruiz de Austri

Diffraction gratings with high upward diffraction efficiency and large effective length are required for chip-scale light detection and ranging. In this paper, we propose a diffraction grating based on a multilayer silicon nitride…

X-ray magnetic circular dichroism is an efficient contrast mechanism allowing for a direct sensitivity to magnetization. Combined with an imaging technique such as photoemission electron microscopy, it has been successfully applied to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-12 Alexis Wartelle , Marisel Di Pietro Martínez , Olivier Fruchart , Philippe David , Guillaume Beutier

Complementary to conventional and phase X-ray radiography, dark-field imaging has become central in visualizing diffusive scattering signal due to the spatially-unresolved texture within an object. To date most diffusive-dark-field…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-03-21 Mario A. Beltran , David M. Paganin , Michelle K. Croughan , Kaye S. Morgan

We explore finite size 3D effects in open axion haloscopes such as a dish antenna, a dielectric disk and a minimal dielectric haloscope consisting of a mirror and one dielectric disk. Particularly dielectric haloscopes are a promising new…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-23 Stefan Knirck , Jan Schütte-Engel , Alexander J. Millar , Javier Redondo , Olaf Reimann , Andreas Ringwald , Frank D. Steffen

In the course of the past few years, diffusion models (DMs) have reached an unprecedented level of visual quality. However, relatively little attention has been paid to the detection of DM-generated images, which is critical to prevent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Jonas Ricker , Simon Damm , Thorsten Holz , Asja Fischer

X-ray dark-field imaging creates a representation of the sample where contrast is generated by subresolution features within the volume under inspection. These are detected by a local measurement of the radiation field's angular…

Dynamic full-field optical coherence microscopy (d-FF-OCM) is a label-free imaging technique that captures intrinsic subcellular motions to generate functional contrast. This dynamic approach yields images with fluorescence-like contrast,…

Optics · Physics 2025-08-06 Erikas Tarvydas , Austeja Treciokaite , Egidijus Auksorius

In differential phase contrast scanning transmission electron microscopy (DPC-STEM), variability in dynamical diffraction resulting from changes in sample thickness and local crystal orientation (due to sample bending) can produce contrast…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-02-06 T. Mawson , A. Nakamura , T. C. Petersen , N. Shibata , H. Sasaki , D. M. Paganin , M. J. Morgan , S. D. Findlay

The in situ synchrotron high-energy X-ray powder diffraction (XRD) technique is highly utilized by researchers to analyze the crystallographic structures of materials in functional devices (e.g., battery materials) or in complex sample…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-16 Howard Yanxon , James Weng , Hannah Parraga , Wenqian Xu , Uta Ruett , Nicholas Schwarz

Coherent diffraction imaging enables the imaging of individual defects, such as dislocations or stacking faults, in materials.These defects and their surrounding elastic strain fields have a critical influence on the macroscopic properties…