Understanding ductile-to-brittle transition of metallic glasses from shear transformation zone dilatation

A theoretical model that takes into account the flee-volume aided cooperative shearing of shear transformation zones （STZs） is developed to quantitatively understand the ductile-to-brittle transition （DBT） of metallic glasses. The STZ dilatational strain is defined as the ratio of STZ-activated free volume to STZ volume itself. The model demonstrates that the STZ dilatational strain will increase drastically and exceed the characteristic shear strain of STZ as temperature decreases below a critical value. This critical temperature is in good agreement with the experimentally measured DBT temperature. Our results suggest that the DBT of metallic glasses is underpinned by the transition of atomic-cluster motions from STZ-tvpe rearrangements to dilatational processes （termed tension transformation zones （TrZs））.

A Survey on Cryptographic Security and Information Hiding Technology for Cloud or Fog-Based IoT System

Internet of Things(IoT)is an emerging paradigm involving intelligent sensor networks that incorporates embedded technology for collecting data,communicating with external environments.Recently,cloud computing together with fog computing has become an important research area of the Internet of Things because of big data processing capabilities.It is a promising technology that utilizes cloud or fog computing/architecture to improve sensor computing,storage,and communication capabilities.However,recently it has been shown that this computing/architecture may be vulnerable to various attacks because of the openness nature of the wireless network.Therefore,it becomes more and more important to ensure the security and privacy in these scenes.Encryption security and information hiding technology can provide authentication,confidentiality,integrity,anti-eavesdropping,availability and so on for these computing models or architectures.The purpose of this review is to look for original articles with novel ideas and solutions to address encryption security and information hiding technologies in cloud or fog-based Internet of Things systems.We hope this review will provide an opportunity for scientists,researchers and industry engineers to study original manuscripts and know developments in all aspects of security,privacy,trust,and covert communication issues in cloud or fog computing/architecture Internet of Things systems.

■^(−)_(b)→J/ψΛK^(−)衰变中一个J/ψΛ结构的迹象与■^(−)激发态的发现

夸克和胶子组成的粒子统称强子,其中包含4个或以上组分夸克的强子被称为奇异强子.目前实验上发现的奇异强子最多包含5个夸克,称为五夸克态.对五夸克态的深入研究可以检验对强相互作用的理解.利用质心能量为7、8和13 TeV,总积分亮度9 fb^(−1)的质子-质子对撞数据,大型强子对撞机底夸克实验(LHCb)采用全谱分析的方法,研究了■^(−)_(b)→J/ψΛK^(−)衰变过程中的共振态结构.实验发现J/ψΛ系统中存在质量约为4.46 MeV/c^(2)的共振结构存在的迹象,其显著程度为3.1倍标准偏差,性质与五夸克态相符.这是实验上首次观测到包含奇异夸克的五夸克态的存在证据,为五夸克态的理论研究和后续的实验探索提供了重要的依据.除此之外,实验还精细测量了ΛK−系统中部分共振态的共振参数,精度远高于当前世界平均值,这对加深传统重子谱学的认识有着重要的意义.

Enhanced mechanical performance of grain boundary precipitation-hardened high-entropy alloys via a phase transformation at grain boundaries

Grain-boundary(GB)precipitation has a significant adverse effect on plasticity of alloys,which easily leads to catastrophic intergranular failure in safety-critical applications under high external loading.Herein,we report a novel strategy that uses the local stress concentration induced by GB precipitates as a driving force to trigger phase transformation of preset non-equiatomic high-entropy solid-solution phase at GBs.This in situ deformation-induced phase transformation at GBs introduces a well-known effect:transformation-induced plasticity(TRIP),which enables an exceptional elongation to fracture(above 38%)at a high strength(above 1.5 GPa)in a GB precipitation-hardened high-entropy alloy(HEA).The present strategy in terms of"local stress concentration-induced phase transformations at GBs"may provide a fundamental approach by taking advantage of(rather than avoiding)the GB precipitation to gain a superior combination of high strength and high ductility in HEAs.

Search for the rare decay B^(0)→J/ψФ

A search for the rare decay B^(0)→J/ψФis performed using Pp collision data collected with the LHCb dete-ctor at centre-of-mass energies of 7,8 and 13 TeV,corresponding to an integrated luminosity of9 fb.No significant signal of the decay is observed and an upper limitof 1.1x 10^(-7)at 90%confidence level is set on the branching fraction.

Search for the doubly heavy baryons Ω^(0)_(bc) and E^(0)_(bc) decaying to Λ^(+)_(c)π^(-) and E^(+)_(c)π^(-)

The first search for the doubly heavyΩ^(0)_(bc)baryon and a search for the E^(0)_(bc)baryon are performed using pp collision data collected via the LHCb experiment from 2016 to 2018 at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV,corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5.2 fb^(-1).The baryons are reconstructed via their decays to Λ^(+)_(c)π^(-)and E^(+)_(c)π^(-).No significant excess is fbund for invariant masses between 6700 and 7300 MeV/c^(2),in a rapidity range from 2.0 to 4.5 and a transverse momentum range from 2 to 20 MeV/c.Upper limits are set on the ratio of the Ω^(0)_(bc)and E^(0)_(bc)production cross-section times the branching fraction to Λ^(+)_(c)π^(-)(E^(+)_(c)π^(-))relative to that of the Λ^(0)_(b)(E^(0)_(b))baryon,for different lifetime hypotheses,at 95%confidence level.The upper limits range from 0.5 x 10^(-4)to 2.5 x 10^(-4)for theΩ^(0)_(bc)→Λ^(+)_(c)π^(-)(E^(0)_(bc)→Λ^(+)_(c)π^(-))decay,and from 1.4x 10^(-3)to 6.9 x 10^(-3)for theΩ^(0)_(bc)→E^(+)_(c)π^(-)(E^(0)_(bc)→E^(+)_(c)π^(-))decay,depending on the considered mass and lifetime of theΩ^(0)_(bc)(E^(0)_(bc))baryon.

Search for the doubly charmed baryon ■

A search for the doubly charmed baryon ■^+cc is performed through its decay to theΛ^+c K^-π^+ final state,using proton-proton collision data collected with the LHCb detector at centre-of-mass energies of 7,8 and 13 TeV.The data correspond to a total integrated luminosity of 9 fb^-1.No significant signal is observed in the mass range from 3.4 to 3.8 GeV/c^2.Upper limits are set at 95%credibility level on the ratio of the ■^+cc production cross-section times the branching fraction to that ofΛ^+c and ■^++cc baryons.The limits are determined as functions of the ■^+cc mass for different lifetime hypotheses,in the rapidity range from 2.0 to 4.5 and the transverse momentum range from 4 to 15 GeV/c.

Measurement of Ξcc++ production in pp collisions at s1/2=13 TeV

The production of ■baryons in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of √s = 13 TeV is measured in the transverse-momentum range 4<pT<15GeV/c and the rapidity range2.0<y<4.5.The data used in this measurement correspond to an integrated luminosity of 1.7fb^-1,recorded by the LHCb experiment during 2016.The ratio of the ■ production cross-section times the branching fraction of the■→∧^+cK^-π^+ π^+decay relative to the prompt ∧^+c production cross-section is found to be(2.22±0.27±0.29)×10^-4,assuming the central value of the measured lifetime,where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second systematic.