Solar Energetic Particle Event of 2005 January 20:Release Times and Possible Sources

Based on cosmic ray data obtained by neutron monitors at the Earth＇s surface, and data on near-relativistic electrons measured by the WIND satellite, as well as on solar X-ray and radio burst data, the solar energetic particle （SEP） event of 2005 January 20 is studied. The results show that this event is a mixed event where the flare is dominant in the acceleration of the SEPs, the interplanetary shock accelerates mainly solar protons with energies below 130 MeV, while the relativistic protons are only accelerated by the solar flare. The interplanetary shock had an obvious acceleration effect on relativistic electrons with energies greater than 2 MeV. It was found that the solar release time for the relativistic protons was about 06：41 UT, while that for the near-relativistic electrons was about 06：39 UT. The latter turned Out to be about 2 rain later than the onset time of the interplanetary type HI burst.

Lifetime prediction based on Gamma processes from accelerated degradation data

Accelerated degradation test is a useful approach to predict the product lifetime at the normal use stress level, especially for highly reliable products. Two kinds of the lifetime prediction based on Gamma processes were studied. One was to predict the lifetime of the population from accelerated degradation data, and the other was to predict the lifetime of an individual by taking the accelerated degradation data as prior information. For an extensive application, the Gamma process with a time transformation and random effects was considered. A novel contribution is that a deducing method for determining the relationships between the shape and scale parameters of Gamma processes and accelerated stresses was presented. When predicting the lifetime of an individual, Bayesian inference methods were adopted to improve the prediction accuracy, in which the conjugate prior distribution and the non-conjugate prior distribution of random parameters were studied. The conjugate prior distribution only considers the random effect of the scale parameter while the non-conjugate prior distribution considers the random effects of both the scale and shape parameter. The application and usefulness of the proposed method was demonstrated by the accelerated degradation data of carbon-film resistors.

Recent advances in efficient computation of deep convolutional neural networks

Deep neural networks have evolved remarkably over the past few years and they are currently the fundamental tools of many intelligent systems.At the same time,the computational complexity and resource consumption of these networks continue to increase.This poses a significant challenge to the deployment of such networks,especially in real-time applications or on resource-limited devices.Thus,network acceleration has become a hot topic within the deep learning community.As for hardware implementation of deep neural networks,a batch of accelerators based on a field-programmable gate array(FPGA) or an application-specific integrated circuit(ASIC)have been proposed in recent years.In this paper,we provide a comprehensive survey of recent advances in network acceleration,compression,and accelerator design from both algorithm and hardware points of view.Specifically,we provide a thorough analysis of each of the following topics:network pruning,low-rank approximation,network quantization,teacher–student networks,compact network design,and hardware accelerators.Finally,we introduce and discuss a few possible future directions.

Intelligent low-level RF system by non-destructive beam monitoring device for cyclotrons

The project of a 10 Me V PET cyclotron accelerator for medical diagnosis and treatment was started at Amirkabir University of Technology in 2012. The low-level RF system of the cyclotron accelerator is designed to stabilize acceleration voltage and control the resonance frequency of the cavity. In this work an Intelligent Low Level Radio Frequency Circuit or ILLRF, suitable for most AVF cyclotron accelerators, is designed using a beam monitoring device and narrow band tunable band-pass filter. In this design, the RF phase detection does not need signal processing by a microcontroller.

Design study of a radio-frequency quadrupole for high-intensity beams

The Rare isotope Accelerator Of Newness（RAON） heavy-ion accelerator has been designed for the Rare Isotope Science Project（RISP） in Korea. The RAON will produce heavy-ion beams from 660-MeV-proton to200-MeV/u-uranium with continuous wave（CW） power of 400 k W to support research in various scientific fields.Its system consists of an ECR ion source, LEBTs with 10 ke V/u, CW RFQ accelerator with 81.25 MHz and 500 ke V/u, a MEBT system, and a SC linac. In detail, the driver linac system consists of a Quarter Wave Resonator（QWR） section with 81.25 MHz and a Half Wave Resonator（HWR） section with 162.5 MHz, Linac-1, and a Spoke Cavity section with 325 MHz, Linac-2. These linacs have been designed to optimize the beam parameters to meet the required design goals. At the same time, a light-heavy ion accelerator with high-intensity beam, such as proton,deuteron, and helium beams, is required for experiments. In this paper, we present the design study of the high intensity RFQ for a deuteron beam with energies from 30 ke V/u to 1.5 MeV/u and currents in the m A range. This system is composed of an Penning Ionization Gauge ion source, short LEBT with a RF deflector, and shared SC Linac. In order to increase acceleration efficiency in a short length with low cost, the 2nd harmonic of 162.5 MHz is applied as the operation frequency in the D^＋RFQ design. The D^＋RFQ is designed with 4.97 m, 1.52 bravery factor. Since it operates with 2nd harmonic frequency, the beam should be 50% of the duty factor while the cavity should be operated in CW mode, to protect the downstream linac system. We focus on avoiding emittance growth by the space-charge effect and optimizing the RFQ to achieve a high transmission and low emittance growth. Both the RFQ beam dynamics study and RFQ cavity design study for two and three dimensions will be discussed.

Generation of high-quality electron beams from a laser-based advanced accelerator

At Shanghai Jiao Tong University（SJTU） we have established a research laboratory for advanced acceleration research based on high-power lasers and plasma technologies. In a primary experiment based on the laser wakefield acceleration（LWFA） scheme, multi-hundred Me V electron beams of reasonable quality are generated using 20–40 TW, 30 femtosecond laser pulses interacting independently with helium, neon, nitrogen and argon gas jet targets. The laser-plasma interaction conditions are optimized for stabilizing the electron beam generation from each type of gas. The electron beam pointing angle stability and divergence angle as well as the energy spectra from each gas jet are measured and compared.