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cond-mat.supr-con2025

Superconductivity up to 17 K in the high-pressure rhombohedral-I phase of ReO3: a potential oxide analogy of hydride superconductors

P. F. Shan, T. L. Lu, Z. Y. Liu +10

As an A-site-vacant perovskite-type oxide, ReO3 undergoes sequential pressure-driven structural transitions associated with the rotation of ReO6 octahedra. The rhombohedral-I phase…

physics.optics2020

Light and Slow-Neutron Diffraction by Nanodiamond-Dispersed Nanocomposite Holographic Gratings

Y. Tomita, A. Kageyama, Y. Iso +9

We demonstrate the use of nanodiamond in constructing holographic nanoparticle-polymer composite transmission gratings with large saturated refractive index modulation amplitudes a…

physics.ins-det2020

AI-optimized detector design for the future Electron-Ion Collider: the dual-radiator RICH case

E. Cisbani, A. Del Dotto, C. Fanelli +44

Advanced detector R&D requires performing computationally intensive and detailed simulations as part of the detector-design optimization process. We propose a general approach to t…

cond-mat.mes-hall2012

Stacking-order dependence in thermoelectric transport of biased trilayer graphene

R. Ma, L. Sheng, M. Liu +1

We numerically study the thermoelectric and thermal transport in trilayer graphene with different stacking orders in the presence of interlayer bias under a strong perpendicular ma…

quant-ph2021

Demonstration of an Unusual Thermal Effect in the Casimir Force from Graphene

M. Liu, Y. Zhang, G. L. Klimchitskaya +2

We report precision measurements of the gradient of the Casimir force between an Au-coated sphere and graphene sheet deposited on a silica plate. The measurement data are compared…

eess.SY2021

Non-iterative Optimization Algorithm for Active Distribution Grids Considering Uncertainty of Feeder Parameters

J. Wu, M. Liu, W. Lu +2

To cope with fast-fluctuating distributed energy resources (DERs) and uncontrolled loads, this paper formulates a time-varying optimization problem for distribution grids with DERs…

quant-ph2017

Entangling two atoms of different isotopes via Rydberg blockade

Y. Zeng, P. Xu, X. D. He +6

Quantum entanglement is crucial for simulating and understanding exotic physics of strongly correlated many-body systems, such as high--temperature superconductors, or fractional q…

cond-mat.str-el2014

Kondo effect in a novel 5d quasi-skutterudite Yb3Os4Ge13

C. L. Yang, X. Wang, X. Zhang +9

We report the crystal growth of a new compound, Yb3Os4Ge13, by using a Bi-flux method. X-ray diffraction measurement shows that it crystallizes in the quasi-skutterudite-type caged…

astro-ph.IM2018

The Diverse Science Return from a Wide-Area Survey of the Galactic Plane

R. A. Street, M. B. Lund, S. Khakpash +19

The overwhelming majority of objects visible to LSST lie within the Galactic Plane. Though many previous surveys have avoided this region for fear of stellar crowding, LSST's spati…

physics.acc-ph2025

Interim report for the International Muon Collider Collaboration (IMCC)

C. Accettura, S. Adrian, R. Agarwal +383

The International Muon Collider Collaboration (IMCC) [1] was established in 2020 following the recommendations of the European Strategy for Particle Physics (ESPP) and the implemen…

physics.plasm-ph2018

Ion beam bunching via phase rotation in cascading laser-driven ion acceleration

H. C. Wang, S. M. Weng, M. Liu +5

The ion beam bunching in a cascaded target normal sheath acceleration is investigated by theoretical analysis and particle-in-cell simulations. It is found that a proton beam can b…

physics.ins-det2008

Technical Design Report for PANDA Electromagnetic Calorimeter (EMC)

PANDA Collaboration, W. Erni, I. Keshelashvili +407

This document presents the technical layout and the envisaged performance of the Electromagnetic Calorimeter (EMC) for the PANDA target spectrometer. The EMC has been designed to m…

physics.plasm-ph2016

Collisionless electrostatic shock formation and ion acceleration in intense laser interactions with near critical density plasmas

M. Liu, S. M. Weng, Y. T. Li +8

Laser-driven collisonless electrostatic shock formation and the subsequent ion acceleration have been studied in near critical density plasmas. Particle-in-cell simulations show th…

hep-ex2025

WIMP Dark Matter Search using a 3.1 Tonne-Year Exposure of the XENONnT Experiment

E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, K. Abe +175

We report on a search for weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter (DM) via elastic DM-xenon-nucleus interactions in the XENONnT experiment. We combine datasets from…

astro-ph.SR2019

The SOMA Radio Survey. I. Comprehensive SEDs Of High-Mass Protostars From Infrared To Radio And The Emergence Of Ionization Feedback

V. Rosero, K. E. I. Tanaka, J. C. Tan +5

We study centimeter continuum emission of eight high- and intermediate-mass protostars that are part of the SOFIA Massive (SOMA) Star Formation Survey, thus building extended spect…

nucl-ex2026

Direct Measurement of the and Decay Branching Ratios with the XENONnT Experiment

E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, K. Abe +178

We present precision measurements of and decay branching ratios using and calibration data from…

hep-ex2024

First Indication of Solar B Neutrinos via Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering with XENONnT

E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, K. Abe +164

We present the first measurement of nuclear recoils from solar B neutrinos via coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering with the XENONnT dark matter experiment. The central…

nucl-ex2020

Reexamination of Li scattering as a Probe to Investigate the Isoscalar Giant Resonances in Nuclei

J. C. Zamora, C. Sullivan, R. G. T. Zegers +37

Inelastic Li scattering at 100 MeV/u on C and Nb have been measured with the high-resolution magnetic spectrometer Grand Raiden. The magnetic-rigidity set…

hep-ex2025

United States Muon Collider Community White Paper for the European Strategy for Particle Physics Update

A. Abdelhamid, D. Acosta, P. Affleck +301

This document is being submitted to the 2024-2026 European Strategy for Particle Physics Update (ESPPU) process on behalf of the US Muon Collider community, with its preparation co…

physics.ins-det2019

New Technologies for Discovery

Z. Ahmed, A. Apresyan, M. Artuso +80

For the field of high energy physics to continue to have a bright future, priority within the field must be given to investments in the development of both evolutionary and transfo…

astro-ph.IM2017

The UKIRT Hemisphere Survey: Definition and J-band Data Release

S. Dye, A. Lawrence, M. A. Read +23

This paper defines the UK Infra-Red Telescope (UKIRT) Hemisphere Survey (UHS) and release of the remaining ~12,700 sq.deg of J-band survey data products. The UHS will provide conti…

astro-ph.SR2013

Seventy six T dwarfs from the UKIDSS LAS: benchmarks, kinematics and an updated space density

Ben Burningham, C. V. Cardoso, L. Smith +34

We report the discovery of 76 new T dwarfs from the UKIDSS Large Area Survey (LAS). Near-infrared broad and narrow-band photometry and spectroscopy are presented for the new object…

hep-ex2025

Search for Light Dark Matter in Low-Energy Ionization Signals from XENONnT

E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, K. Abe +165

We report on a blinded search for dark matter with single- and few-electron signals in the first science run of XENONnT relying on a novel detector response framework that is physi…

physics.plasm-ph2016

Dense blocks of energetic ions driven by multi-petawatt lasers

S. M. Weng, M. Liu, Z. M. Sheng +4

Laser-driven ion accelerators have the advantages of compact size, high density, and short bunch duration over conventional accelerators. Nevertheless, it is still challenging to s…

hep-ex2021

The Large Hadron-Electron Collider at the HL-LHC

P. Agostini, H. Aksakal, S. Alekhin +333

The Large Hadron electron Collider (LHeC) is designed to move the field of deep inelastic scattering (DIS) to the energy and intensity frontier of particle physics. Exploiting ener…

physics.ins-det2020

Optimization of the JUNO liquid scintillator composition using a Daya Bay antineutrino detector

Daya Bay, JUNO collaborations, : +646

To maximize the light yield of the liquid scintillator (LS) for the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO), a 20 t LS sample was produced in a pilot plant at Daya Bay. Th…

cond-mat.supr-con2019

3D visualizations of nano-scale phase separation and ultrafast dynamic correlation between phases in (Na0.32K0.68)0.95Fe1.75Se2

P. C. Cheng, W. Y. Tzeng, Y. J. Chu +10

Phase separation of metallic and antiferromagnetic (AFM) insulating phases in alkaline iron selenides (AxFe2-ySe2) continues to attract intense interest because the relationship be…

cs.LG2022

Invariance, encodings, and generalization: learning identity effects with neural networks

S. Brugiapaglia, M. Liu, P. Tupper

Often in language and other areas of cognition, whether two components of an object are identical or not determines if it is well formed. We call such constraints identity effects.…

hep-ex2026

Challenging Spontaneous Quantum Collapse with XENONnT

E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, K. Abe +174

We report on the search for X-ray radiation as predicted from dynamical quantum collapse with low-energy electronic recoil data in the energy range of 1-140 keV from the first scie…

astro-ph.HE2025

The IceCube-Gen2 Collaboration -- Contributions to the 39th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2025)

R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +465

IceCube-Gen2 is a planned next-generation neutrino observatory at the South Pole that builds upon the successful design of IceCube. Integrating two complementary detection technolo…

nucl-ex2024

First Exploration of Monopole-Driven Shell Evolution above the N = 126 shell closure: new Millisecond Isomers in 213Tl and 215Tl

T. T. Yeung, A. I. Morales, J. Wu +52

Isomer spectroscopy of heavy neutron-rich nuclei beyond the N=126 closed shell has been performed for the first time at the Radioactive Isotope Beam Factory of the RIKEN Nishina Ce…

hep-ex2025

Constraints on Solar Reflected Dark Matter from a combined analysis of XENON1T and XENONnT data

XENON Collaboration, E. Aprile, J. Aalbers +174

We report on a search for sub-GeV dark matter upscattered via the solar reflection mechanism in the heavy mediator scenario. Under the Standard Halo Model, keV to MeV dark matter p…

cond-mat.str-el2018

Mass enhancements and band shifts in strongly hole overdoped Fe-based pnictide superconductors: KFeAs and CsFeAs

S. -L. Drechsler, H. Rosner, V. Grinenko +11

The interplay of high and low-energy mass renormalizations with band-shifts reflected by the positions of van Hove singularities (VHS) in the normal state spectra of the highest ho…

hep-ex2026

Probing the Solar B Neutrino Fog with XENONnT

E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, K. Abe +176

We report a 3.3 measurement of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering from solar B neutrinos using a 6.77 tyr exposure from the XENONnT experiment, inferring…

astro-ph.GA2020

CHIMPS2: Survey description and CO emission in the Galactic Centre

D. J. Eden, T. J. T. Moore, M. J. Currie +103

The latest generation of Galactic-plane surveys is enhancing our ability to study the effects of galactic environment upon the process of star formation. We present the first data…

physics.ins-det2012

Technical Design Report for the: PANDA Micro Vertex Detector

PANDA Collaboration, W. Erni, I. Keshelashvili +454

This document illustrates the technical layout and the expected performance of the Micro Vertex Detector (MVD) of the PANDA experiment. The MVD will detect charged particles as clo…

astro-ph.IM2019

The Pan-STARRS1 Surveys

K. C. Chambers, E. A. Magnier, N. Metcalfe +123

Pan-STARRS1 has carried out a set of distinct synoptic imaging sky surveys including the Steradian Survey and the Medium Deep Survey in 5 bands (). The mean 5

hep-ex2024

Measurement of asymmetries in decays at Belle II

Belle II Collaboration, I. Adachi, L. Aggarwal +399

We describe a measurement of charge-parity () violation asymmetries in decays using Belle II data. We consider and $η'\toρ(\toπ^…

physics.ins-det2022

ATHENA Detector Proposal -- A Totally Hermetic Electron Nucleus Apparatus proposed for IP6 at the Electron-Ion Collider

ATHENA Collaboration, J. Adam, L. Adamczyk +433

ATHENA has been designed as a general purpose detector capable of delivering the full scientific scope of the Electron-Ion Collider. Careful technology choices provide fine trackin…

astro-ph.HE2024

Magnetar emergence in a peculiar gamma-ray burst from a compact star merger

H. Sun, C. -W. Wang, J. Yang +42

The central engine that powers gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), the most powerful explosions in the universe, is still not identified. Besides hyper-accreting black holes, rapidly spinning…

hep-ex2024

First Measurement of as an Inclusive Test of the Anomaly

Belle II Collaboration, I. Adachi, K. Adamczyk +390

We measure the tau-to-light-lepton ratio of inclusive -meson branching fractions , where indi…

hep-ex2009

Expected Performance of the ATLAS Experiment - Detector, Trigger and Physics

The ATLAS Collaboration, G. Aad, E. Abat +2604

A detailed study is presented of the expected performance of the ATLAS detector. The reconstruction of tracks, leptons, photons, missing energy and jets is investigated, together w…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021

Intertube excitonic coupling in nanotube van der Waals heterostructures

M. G. Burdanova, M. Liu, M. Staniforth +7

Excitons dominate the optics of atomically-thin transition metal dichalcogenides and 2D van der Waals heterostructures. Interlayer 2D excitons, with an electron and a hole residing…

astro-ph.SR2021

Solar wind energy flux observations in the inner heliosphere: First results from Parker Solar Probe

M. Liu, K. Issautier, N. Meyer-Vernet +15

We investigate the solar wind energy flux in the inner heliosphere using 12-day observations around each perihelion of Encounter One (E01), Two (E02), Four (E04), and Five (E05) of…

hep-ex2009

Physics Performance Report for PANDA: Strong Interaction Studies with Antiprotons

PANDA Collaboration, W. Erni, I. Keshelashvili +411

To study fundamental questions of hadron and nuclear physics in interactions of antiprotons with nucleons and nuclei, the universal PANDA detector will be built. Gluonic excitation…

cond-mat.supr-con2002

Unitary limit and quantum interference effect in disordered two-dimensional crystals with nearly half-filled bands

Y. H. Yang, D. Y. Xing, Y. G. Wang +1

Based on the self-consistent -matrix approximation, the quantum interference (QI) effect is studied with the diagrammatic technique in weakly-disordered two-dimensional crystals…

cond-mat.mes-hall2010

Universal Thermoelectric Effect of Dirac Fermions in Graphene

Lijun Zhu, R. Ma, L. Sheng +2

We numerically study the thermoelectric transports of Dirac fermions in graphene in the presence of a strong magnetic field and disorder. We find that the thermoelectric transport…

physics.ins-det2025

Radon Removal in XENONnT down to the Solar Neutrino Level

E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, K. Abe +169

The XENONnT experiment has achieved an exceptionally low Rn activity concentration within its inner 5.9tonne liquid xenon detector of (0.900.01stat.$\…

quant-ph2021

Experimental and theoretical investigation of the thermal effect in the Casimir interaction from graphene

M. Liu, Y. Zhang, G. L. Klimchitskaya +2

We present the results of an experiment on measuring the gradient of the Casimir force between an Au-coated hollow glass microsphere and graphene-coated fused silica plate by means…

cond-mat.mes-hall2011

Thermoelectric and thermal transport in bilayer graphene systems

R. Ma, L. Zhu, L. Sheng +2

We numerically study the disorder effect on the thermoelectric and thermal transport for bilayer graphene under a strong perpendicular magnetic field. In the unbiased case, we find…

eess.SP2025

Meta-learning based Selective Fixed-filter Active Noise Control System with ResNet Classifier

Y. Xiao, M. Liu, D. Wei +1

The selective fixed-filter strategy is popular in industrial applications involving active noise control (ANC) technology, which circumvents the time-consuming online learning proc…

hep-ex2024

Study of decays to final states at Belle II

Belle II Collaboration, I. Adachi, L. Aggarwal +393

We present an analysis of the process (where = 1, 2, or 3) reconstructed in of Belle II data during a special run of t…

physics.med-ph2023

Quantitative perfusion and water transport time model from multi b-value diffusion magnetic resonance imaging validated against neutron capture microspheres

M. Liu, N. Saadat, Y. Jeong +5

Intravoxel Incoherent Motion (IVIM) is a non-contrast magnetic resonance imaging diffusion-based scan that uses a multitude of b-values to measure various speeds of molecular perfu…

astro-ph.EP2019

Directly Imaging Rocky Planets from the Ground

B. Mazin, É. Artigau, V. Bailey +59

Over the past three decades instruments on the ground and in space have discovered thousands of planets outside the solar system. These observations have given rise to an astonishi…

cond-mat.mes-hall2009

Quantum Hall Effect in Bilayer Graphene: Disorder Effect and Quantum Phase Transition

R. Ma, L. Sheng, R. Shen +2

We numerically study the quantum Hall effect (QHE) in bilayer graphene based on tight-binding model in the presence of disorder. Two distinct QHE regimes are identified in the full…

nucl-th2015

Mass dependence of symmetry energy coefficients in Skyrme force

N. Wang, M. Liu, H. Jiang +2

Based on the semi-classical extended Thomas-Fermi approach, we study the mass dependence of the symmetry energy coefficients of finite nuclei for 36 different Skyrme forces. The re…

physics.ins-det2009

Technical Design Report for the PANDA Solenoid and Dipole Spectrometer Magnets

The PANDA Collaboration, W. Erni, I. Keshelashvili +407

This document is the Technical Design Report covering the two large spectrometer magnets of the PANDA detector set-up. It shows the conceptual design of the magnets and their antic…

cond-mat.supr-con2002

Quantum interference effect on the density of states in disordered d-wave superconductors

Y. H. Yang, Y. G. Wang, M. Liu +1

The quantum interference effect on the quasiparticle density of states (DOS) is studied with the diagrammatic technique in two-dimensional d-wave superconductors with dilute nonmag…

hep-ex2025

First Search for Light Dark Matter in the Neutrino Fog with XENONnT

E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, K. Abe +165

We search for dark matter (DM) with a mass [3,12] using an exposure of 3.51 with the XENONnT experiment.We consider spin-indepen…

physics.plasm-ph2026

Features of spherical torus p 11B burning plasmas

Y. -K. M. Peng, A. Ishida, T. Sun +10

A spherical torus (ST) p B11 plasma model that satisfies multi-magnetofluid force balance is developed, which includes small fractions of suprathermal ions with temperatures around…

astro-ph.SR2023

Total Electron Temperature Derived from Quasi-Thermal Noise Spectroscopy In the Pristine Solar Wind: Parker Solar Probe Observations

M. Liu, K. Issautier, M. Moncuquet +11

The Quasi-thermal noise (QTN) technique is a reliable tool to yield accurate measurements of the electron parameters in the solar wind. We apply this method on Parker Solar Probe (…

cond-mat.mes-hall2009

Quantum Hall Effect in Biased Bilayer Graphene

R. Ma, L. J. Zhu, L. Sheng +2

We numerically study the quantum Hall effect in biased bilayer graphene based on a tight-binding model in the presence of disorder. Integer quantum Hall plateaus with quantized con…

physics.ins-det2026

Enhancing Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay Sensitivity of Liquid-Xenon Time Projection Chamber with Augmented Convolutional Neural Network

E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, K. Abe +173

Dual-phase time projection chamber (TPC) that employs a multi-ton-scale liquid xenon (LXe) target mass is a pioneering detector technology to search for dark matter. Beyond its adv…

nucl-ex2026

ePIC Early Science Report

D. Abbott, N. Abdelrahman, S. Abhijit +781

This Early Science Report from the ePIC Collaboration outlines the compelling physics program achievable during the first years of operation of the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC), pri…

cs.LG2022

Flow-based Algorithms for Improving Clusters: A Unifying Framework, Software, and Performance

K. Fountoulakis, M. Liu, D. F. Gleich +1

Clustering points in a vector space or nodes in a graph is a ubiquitous primitive in statistical data analysis, and it is commonly used for exploratory data analysis. In practice,…

astro-ph.GA2019

SCOPE: SCUBA-2 Continuum Observations of Pre-protostellar Evolution - Survey Description and Compact Source Catalogue

D. J. Eden, Tie Liu, Kee-Tae Kim +157

We present the first release of the data and compact-source catalogue for the JCMT Large Program SCUBA-2 Continuum Observations of Pre-protostellar Evolution (SCOPE). SCOPE consist…

physics.ins-det2024

The neutron veto of the XENONnT experiment: Results with demineralized water

XENON Collaboration, E. Aprile, J. Aalbers +167

Radiogenic neutrons emitted by detector materials are one of the most challenging backgrounds for the direct search of dark matter in the form of weakly interacting massive particl…

physics.ins-det2014

Automated fabrication technique of gold tips for use in point-contact spectroscopy

S. Narasiwodeyar, M. Dwyer, M. Liu +2

For a successful point-contact spectroscopy (PCS) measurement, metallic tips of proper shape and smoothness are essential to ensure the ballistic nature of a point-contact junction…

physics.plasm-ph2018

Efficient injection of radiation-pressure-accelerated sub-relativistic protons into laser wakefield acceleration based on 10 PW lasers

M. Liu, S. M. Weng, H. C. Wang +6

We propose a hybrid laser-driven ion acceleration scheme using a combination target of a solid foil and a density-tailored background plasma. In the first stage, a sub-relativistic…

nucl-ex2025

Spectral Measurement of the Bi beta-decay to the Po Ground State with XENONnT

E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, K. Abe +170

We report the measurement of the Bi beta-decay spectrum to the ground state of Po using the XENONnT detector. This decay is classified as first-forbidden non-unique…

physics.ins-det2015

A LEGO Watt Balance: An apparatus to determine a mass based on the new SI

L. S. Chao, S. Schlamminger, D. B. Newell +6

A global effort to redefine our International System of Units (SI) is underway and the change to the new system is expected to occur in 2018. Within the newly redefined SI, the pre…

hep-ex2026

Light Dark Matter Search with 7.8 Tonne-Year of Ionization-Only Data in XENONnT

E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, K. Abe +174

We report on a blinded search for dark matter (DM) using ionization-only (S2-only) signals in XENONnT with a total exposure of over 579 days…

cond-mat.supr-con2002

Quasiparticle Delocalization Induced by Novel Quantum Interference in Disordered d-Wave Superconductors

Y. H. Yang, D. Y. Xing, M. Liu +1

The diagrammatic approach is applied to study quasiparticle transport properties in two-dimensional d-wave superconductors with dilute nonmagnetic impurities both in Born and in un…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2012

Study of ageing in Al-Mg-Si alloys by positron annihilation spectroscopy

J. Banhart, M. Liu, Y. Yan +4

In many common Al-Mg-Si alloys (6000 series) intermediate storage at or near 'room temperature' after solutionising leads to pronounced changes of the precipitation kinetics during…

physics.ins-det2026

Low-Energy Nuclear Recoil Calibration of XENONnT with a YBe Photoneutron Source

XENON Collaboration, E. Aprile, J. Aalbers +169

Characterizing low-energy, keV-range nuclear recoils near the detector threshold is one of the major challenges for large direct dark matter detectors. To that end, we have success…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016

Observation of Dirac-like band dispersion in LaAgSb

X. Shi, P. Richard, Kefeng Wang +10

We present a combined angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) and first-principles calculations study of the electronic structure of LaAgSb in the entire first Brillo…