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The Super Tau-Charm Facility (STCF) is a future electron-positron collider proposed in China with a peak luminosity of above 0.5$\times$10$^{35}$ cm$^{-2}$s$^{-1}$ and center-of-mass energy ranging from 2 to 7 GeV. An excellent particle…
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