The acceleration of ultrathin targets driven by intense laser pulses induces Rayleigh–Taylor-like instability.Apart from laser and target con-figurations,we find that electron heating and surface rippling,effects inh...The acceleration of ultrathin targets driven by intense laser pulses induces Rayleigh–Taylor-like instability.Apart from laser and target con-figurations,we find that electron heating and surface rippling,effects inherent to the interaction process,have an important role in instability evolution and growth.By employing a simple analytical model and two-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations,we show that the onset of electron heating in the early stage of the acceleration suppresses the growth of small-scale modes,but it has little influence on the growth of large-scale modes,which thus become dominant.With the growth of surface ripples,a mechanism that can significantly influence the growth of these large-scale modes is found.The laser field modulation caused by surface rippling generates an oscillatory ponderomotive force,directly modulating transverse electron density at a faster growth rate than that of ions and eventually enhancing instability growth.Our results show that when surface deformation becomes obvious,electron surface oscillation at 2ω0(whereω0 is the laser frequency)is excited simultaneously,which can be seen as a signature of this mechanism.展开更多
Quasi-periodic oscillation(QPO)signals are discovered in some fast radio bursts(FRBs)such as FRB 20191221A,as well as in the X-ray burst associated with the galactic FRB from SGR 1935+2154.We revisit the intermediatef...Quasi-periodic oscillation(QPO)signals are discovered in some fast radio bursts(FRBs)such as FRB 20191221A,as well as in the X-ray burst associated with the galactic FRB from SGR 1935+2154.We revisit the intermediatefield FRB model where the radio waves are generated as fast-magnetosonic waves through magnetic reconnection near the light cylinder.The current sheet in the magnetar wind is compressed by a low frequency pulse emitted from the inner magnetosphere to trigger magnetic reconnection.By incorporating the wave dynamics of the magnetosphere,we demonstrate how the FRB frequency,the single pulse width,and luminosity are determined by the period,magnetic field,QPO frequency and quake energetics of the magnetar.We find that this model can naturally and self-consistently interpret the X-ray/radio event from SGR 1935+2154 and the QPO in FRB20191221A.It can also explain the observed wide energy range of repeating FRBs in a narrow bandwidth.展开更多
It has recently been demonstrated experimentally that a turbulent plasma created by the collision of two inhomogeneous,asymmetric,weakly magnetized,laser-produced plasma jets can generate strong stochastic magnetic fi...It has recently been demonstrated experimentally that a turbulent plasma created by the collision of two inhomogeneous,asymmetric,weakly magnetized,laser-produced plasma jets can generate strong stochastic magnetic fields via the small-scale turbulent dynamo mechanism,provided the magnetic Reynolds number of the plasma is sufficiently large.In this paper,we compare such a plasma with one arising from two pre-magnetized plasma jets whose creation is identical save for the addition of a strong external magnetic field imposed by a pulsed magnetic field generator.We investigate the differences between the two turbulent systems using a Thomson-scattering diagnostic,x-ray selfemission imaging,and proton radiography.The Thomson-scattering spectra and x-ray images suggest that the external magnetic field has a limited effect on the plasma dynamics in the experiment.Although the external magnetic field induces collimation of the flows in the colliding plasma jets and although the initial strengths of the magnetic fields arising from the interaction between the colliding jets are significantly larger as a result of the external field,the energies and morphologies of the stochastic magnetic fields post-amplification are indistinguishable.We conclude that,for turbulent laser-plasmas with supercritical magnetic Reynolds numbers,the dynamo-amplified magnetic fields are determined by the turbulent dynamics rather than the seed fields or modest changes in the initial flow dynamics of the plasma,a finding consistent with theoretical expectations and simulations of turbulent dynamos.展开更多
Employing colliding-pulse injection has been shown to enable the generation of high-quality electron beams from laser-plasma accelerators.Here,by using test particle simulations,Hamiltonian analysis,and multidimension...Employing colliding-pulse injection has been shown to enable the generation of high-quality electron beams from laser-plasma accelerators.Here,by using test particle simulations,Hamiltonian analysis,and multidimensional particle-in-cell simulations,we lay the theoretical framework for spin-polarized electron beam generation in the colliding-pulse injection scheme.Furthermore,we show that this scheme enables the production of quasi-monoenergetic electron beams in excess of 80%polarization and tens of pC charge with commercial 10-TW-class laser systems.展开更多
The ground-state mass excess of the T_(z)=−2 drip-line nucleus ^(22)Al is measured for the first time as 18103(10)keV using the newly-developed Bρ-defined isochronous mass spectrometry method at the cooler storage ri...The ground-state mass excess of the T_(z)=−2 drip-line nucleus ^(22)Al is measured for the first time as 18103(10)keV using the newly-developed Bρ-defined isochronous mass spectrometry method at the cooler storage ring in Lanzhou.The new mass excess value allowed us to determine the excitation energies of the two low-lying 1+states in ^(22)Al with significantly reduced uncertainties of 51 keV.When compared to the analogue states in its mirror nucleus ^(22)F,the mirror energy differences of the two 1^(+)states in the ^(22)Al-^(22)F mirror pair are determined to be−625(51)keV and−330(51)keV.The excitation energies and mirror energy differences are used to test the state-of-the-art ab initio valence-space in-medium similarity renormalization group calculations with four sets of interactions derived from the chiral effective field theory.The mechanism leading to the large mirror energy differences is investigated and attributed to the occupation of theπs_(1/2) orbital.展开更多
The in-ice or in-water Cherenkov neutrino telescope,such as IceCube,has already proved its power in measuring the Glashow resonance by searching for the bump around E_(ν)=6.3PeV arising from the W-boson production.Th...The in-ice or in-water Cherenkov neutrino telescope,such as IceCube,has already proved its power in measuring the Glashow resonance by searching for the bump around E_(ν)=6.3PeV arising from the W-boson production.There are many proposals for the next few decades for observations of cosmic tau neutrinos with extensive air showers,also known as tau neutrino telescopes.The air shower telescope is,in principle,sensitive to the Glashow resonance via the channel W→τν_(τ)followed by the tau decay in the air(e.g.,TAMBO,which has a geometric area of approximately 500km^(2)).Using a thorough numerical analysis,we find that the discovery significance can be up to 90%with a TAMBO-like setup if PeV neutrinos primarily originate from neutron decays,considering the flux parameters measured by IceCube as the input.The presence of new physics affecting the neutrino flavor composition can also increase the significance.However,if ultrahigh-energy neutrinos are dominantly produced from meson decays,it will be statistically difficult for an advanced proposal such as TAMBO to discriminate the Glashow resonance induced byν¯e from the intrinsicντ/ν¯_(τ)background.We have identified several limitations for such advanced telescopes,in comparison with the in-ice or in-water telescope,when measuring resonances:(i)a suppressed branching ratio of 11%for the decay W→τν_(τ);(ii)the smearing effect and reduced acceptance because the daughter neutrino takes away(y)∼75%of the energy from the W decay;and(iii)a large attenuation effect for Earth-skimming neutrinos with the resonance.展开更多
The impact of radiation reaction and Breit±Wheeler pair production on the acceleration of fully ionized carbon ions driven by an intense linearly polarized laser pulse has been investigated in the ultra-relativis...The impact of radiation reaction and Breit±Wheeler pair production on the acceleration of fully ionized carbon ions driven by an intense linearly polarized laser pulse has been investigated in the ultra-relativistic transparency regime.Against initial expectations, the radiation reaction and pair production at ultra-high laser intensities are found to enhance the energy gained by the ions. The electrons lose most of their transverse momentum, and the additionally produced pair plasma of Breit±Wheeler electrons and positrons co-streams in the forward direction as opposed to the existing electrons streaming at an angle above zero degree. We discuss how these observations could be explained by the changes in the phase velocity of the Buneman instability, which is known to aid ion acceleration in the breakout afterburner regime, by tapping the free energy in the relative electron and ion streams. We present evidence that these non-classical effects can further improve the highest carbon ion energies in this transparency regime.展开更多
A first search for the Ξ_(bc)^(+)J/ψΞ_(c)^(+) decay is performed by the LHCb experiment with a data sample of proton-proton collisions, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 9 fb−1 recorded at centre-of-mass...A first search for the Ξ_(bc)^(+)J/ψΞ_(c)^(+) decay is performed by the LHCb experiment with a data sample of proton-proton collisions, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 9 fb−1 recorded at centre-of-mass energies of 7, 8, and 13 TeV. Two peaking structures are seen with a local (global) significance of 4.3(2.8) and 4.1(2.4) standard deviations at masses of 6571 and 6694 MeV/c2, respectively. Upper limits are set on the Ξ+bc baryon production cross-section times the branching fraction relative to that of the B+c→J/ψD+s decay at centre-of-mass energies of 8 and 13 TeV, in the Ξ+bc and in the B+c rapidity and transverse-momentum ranges from 2.0 to 4.5 and 0 to 20GeV/c, respectively. Upper limits are presented as a function of the Ξ+bc mass and lifetime.展开更多
A search for the rare decays W^(+)→D_(s)^(+)γ and Z→D0γis performed using proton-proton collision data collected by the LHCb experiment at a centre-of-mass energy of 13TeV,corresponding to an integrated luminosity...A search for the rare decays W^(+)→D_(s)^(+)γ and Z→D0γis performed using proton-proton collision data collected by the LHCb experiment at a centre-of-mass energy of 13TeV,corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2.0fb−1.No significant signal is observed for either decay mode and upper limits on their branching fractions are set using W^(+)→D_(s)^(+)γ and Z→μ+μ−decays as normalization channels.The upper limits are 6.5×10^(−4) and 2.1×10^(−3) at 95% confidence level for the W^(+)→D_(s)^(+)γ and Z→D^(0)γ decay modes,respectively.This is the first reported search for the Z→D^(0)γ decay,while the upper limit on the W+→D+sγbranching fraction improves upon the previous best limit.展开更多
The March 28 and April 4, 1982 eruptions of the E1 Chichon volcano produced the densest dust cloud of this century in the stratosphere which provided an unprecedented opportunity to study aerosol and its weather and c...The March 28 and April 4, 1982 eruptions of the E1 Chichon volcano produced the densest dust cloud of this century in the stratosphere which provided an unprecedented opportunity to study aerosol and its weather and climatic significance, and the minor atmospheric constituent diffusion, transport and sink mechanisms, etc. With展开更多
First evidence of a structure in the J/ψΛinvariant mass distribution is obtained from an amplitude analysis of■b^(-)J/ψΛK^(-)decays.The observed structure is consistent with being due to a charmonium pentaquark w...First evidence of a structure in the J/ψΛinvariant mass distribution is obtained from an amplitude analysis of■b^(-)J/ψΛK^(-)decays.The observed structure is consistent with being due to a charmonium pentaquark with strangeness with a significance of 3.1r including systematic uncertainties and lookelsewhere effect.Its mass and width are determined to be 4458:8±2:9t4:7-1:1 MeV and 17:3±6:5t8:0-5:7 MeV,respectively,where the quoted uncertainties are statistical and systematic.The structure is also consistent with being due to two resonances.In addition,the narrow excited■^(-)states,N■(1690)and■(1820),are seen for the first time in a■b^(-)decay,and their masses and widths are measured with improved precision.The analysis is performed using pp collision data corresponding to a total integrated luminosity of 9 fb^(-1),collected with the LHCb experiment at centre-of-mass energies of 7,8 and 13 TeV.展开更多
In this White Paper we present the potential of the Enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry(eXTP) mission for determining the nature of dense matter; neutron star cores host an extreme density regime which cannot be rep...In this White Paper we present the potential of the Enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry(eXTP) mission for determining the nature of dense matter; neutron star cores host an extreme density regime which cannot be replicated in a terrestrial laboratory. The tightest statistical constraints on the dense matter equation of state will come from pulse profile modelling of accretion-powered pulsars, burst oscillation sources, and rotation-powered pulsars. Additional constraints will derive from spin measurements, burst spectra, and properties of the accretion flows in the vicinity of the neutron star. Under development by an international Consortium led by the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the eXTP mission is expected to be launched in the mid 2020 s.展开更多
基金This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.11921006)the Beijing Outstanding Young Scientists Program,and the National Grand Instrument Project(No.2019YFF01014400)The simulations are supported by the High-Performance Computing Platform of Peking University.
文摘The acceleration of ultrathin targets driven by intense laser pulses induces Rayleigh–Taylor-like instability.Apart from laser and target con-figurations,we find that electron heating and surface rippling,effects inherent to the interaction process,have an important role in instability evolution and growth.By employing a simple analytical model and two-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations,we show that the onset of electron heating in the early stage of the acceleration suppresses the growth of small-scale modes,but it has little influence on the growth of large-scale modes,which thus become dominant.With the growth of surface ripples,a mechanism that can significantly influence the growth of these large-scale modes is found.The laser field modulation caused by surface rippling generates an oscillatory ponderomotive force,directly modulating transverse electron density at a faster growth rate than that of ions and eventually enhancing instability growth.Our results show that when surface deformation becomes obvious,electron surface oscillation at 2ω0(whereω0 is the laser frequency)is excited simultaneously,which can be seen as a signature of this mechanism.
基金J.S.W.acknowledges the support from the Alexander von Humboldt FoundationX.L.is supported by NSERC,funding reference#CITA 490888–16+7 种基金the Jeffrey L.Bishop FellowshipResearch at Perimeter Institute is supported in part by the Government of Canada through the Department of Innovation,Science and Economic Development Canadathe Province of Ontario through the Ministry of Colleges and UniversitiesZ.G.D.is supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(Grant No.2017YFA0402600)the National SKA Program of China(Grant No.2020SKA0120300)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.11833003)X.F.W.is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.11725314,12041306)the National SKA Program of China(2022SKA0130101)。
文摘Quasi-periodic oscillation(QPO)signals are discovered in some fast radio bursts(FRBs)such as FRB 20191221A,as well as in the X-ray burst associated with the galactic FRB from SGR 1935+2154.We revisit the intermediatefield FRB model where the radio waves are generated as fast-magnetosonic waves through magnetic reconnection near the light cylinder.The current sheet in the magnetar wind is compressed by a low frequency pulse emitted from the inner magnetosphere to trigger magnetic reconnection.By incorporating the wave dynamics of the magnetosphere,we demonstrate how the FRB frequency,the single pulse width,and luminosity are determined by the period,magnetic field,QPO frequency and quake energetics of the magnetar.We find that this model can naturally and self-consistently interpret the X-ray/radio event from SGR 1935+2154 and the QPO in FRB20191221A.It can also explain the observed wide energy range of repeating FRBs in a narrow bandwidth.
基金the European Research Council(ERC)under the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme(Grant No.FP7/2007-2013,ERC Grant Agreement Nos.256973 and 247039)the National Nuclear Security Administration(NNSA)of the U.S.Department of Energy(DOE)under Contract No.B591485+12 种基金Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory(LLNL),Field Work Proposal No.57789Argonne National Laboratory,Subcontract Nos.536203 and 630138Los Alamos National Laboratory,Subcontract No.B632670LLNL,Grant Nos.DE-NA0002724,DE-NA0003605,and DE-NA0003934the Flash Center for Computational Science,Grant No.DE-NA0003868the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,and Cooperative Agreement No.DE-NA0003856the Laboratory for Laser Energetics at the University of Rochester.the U.S.DOE Office of Science Fusion Energy Sciences(Grant No.DE-SC0016566)the National Science Foundation(Grant Nos.PHY-1619573,PHY-2033925,and PHY-2045718)the National Research Foundation of Korea(Grant Nos.2016R1A5A1013277 and 2020R1A2C2102800)Support from AWE plc.,the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council(Grant Nos.EP/M022331/1,EP/N014472/1,and EP/R034737/1)the U.K.Science and Technology Facilities Council is also acknowledged.General Atomics for target manufacturing and R&D support,which was funded by the NNSA in support of the National Laser Users’Facility program(Subcontract Nos.89233118CNA000010 and 89233119CNA000063).
文摘It has recently been demonstrated experimentally that a turbulent plasma created by the collision of two inhomogeneous,asymmetric,weakly magnetized,laser-produced plasma jets can generate strong stochastic magnetic fields via the small-scale turbulent dynamo mechanism,provided the magnetic Reynolds number of the plasma is sufficiently large.In this paper,we compare such a plasma with one arising from two pre-magnetized plasma jets whose creation is identical save for the addition of a strong external magnetic field imposed by a pulsed magnetic field generator.We investigate the differences between the two turbulent systems using a Thomson-scattering diagnostic,x-ray selfemission imaging,and proton radiography.The Thomson-scattering spectra and x-ray images suggest that the external magnetic field has a limited effect on the plasma dynamics in the experiment.Although the external magnetic field induces collimation of the flows in the colliding plasma jets and although the initial strengths of the magnetic fields arising from the interaction between the colliding jets are significantly larger as a result of the external field,the energies and morphologies of the stochastic magnetic fields post-amplification are indistinguishable.We conclude that,for turbulent laser-plasmas with supercritical magnetic Reynolds numbers,the dynamo-amplified magnetic fields are determined by the turbulent dynamics rather than the seed fields or modest changes in the initial flow dynamics of the plasma,a finding consistent with theoretical expectations and simulations of turbulent dynamos.
基金The original version of the PIC code EPOCH adapted here is funded by UK EPSRC Grant Nos.EP/G054950/1,EP/G056803/1,EP/G055165/1m,and EP/M022463/1.Z.G.would like to thank Rong-Hao Hu for useful discussions.The authors gratefully acknowledge the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing e.V.(https://www.gauss-centre.eu/)for providing computing time used for the FBPIC simulations through the John von Neumann Institute for Computing(NIC)on the GCS Supercomputer JUWELS at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre(JSC).
文摘Employing colliding-pulse injection has been shown to enable the generation of high-quality electron beams from laser-plasma accelerators.Here,by using test particle simulations,Hamiltonian analysis,and multidimensional particle-in-cell simulations,we lay the theoretical framework for spin-polarized electron beam generation in the colliding-pulse injection scheme.Furthermore,we show that this scheme enables the production of quasi-monoenergetic electron beams in excess of 80%polarization and tens of pC charge with commercial 10-TW-class laser systems.
基金Supported in part by the Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDB34000000)the CAS Project for Young Scientists in Basic Research (YSBR-002)+4 种基金the National Nature Science Foundation of China (12135017,12121005,11975280,12105333,12205340,12322507,12305126,12305151)the Gansu Natural Science Foundation (22JR5RA123,23JRRA614)the National Key R&D Program of China (2021YFA1601500)Support from the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of Chinese Academy of Sciences (2021419,2022423)support from Young Scholar of Regional Development,CAS ([2023]15).
文摘The ground-state mass excess of the T_(z)=−2 drip-line nucleus ^(22)Al is measured for the first time as 18103(10)keV using the newly-developed Bρ-defined isochronous mass spectrometry method at the cooler storage ring in Lanzhou.The new mass excess value allowed us to determine the excitation energies of the two low-lying 1+states in ^(22)Al with significantly reduced uncertainties of 51 keV.When compared to the analogue states in its mirror nucleus ^(22)F,the mirror energy differences of the two 1^(+)states in the ^(22)Al-^(22)F mirror pair are determined to be−625(51)keV and−330(51)keV.The excitation energies and mirror energy differences are used to test the state-of-the-art ab initio valence-space in-medium similarity renormalization group calculations with four sets of interactions derived from the chiral effective field theory.The mechanism leading to the large mirror energy differences is investigated and attributed to the occupation of theπs_(1/2) orbital.
基金Supported by the"CUG Scholar"Scientific Research Funds at China University ofGeosciences(Wuhan)(2024014)。
文摘The in-ice or in-water Cherenkov neutrino telescope,such as IceCube,has already proved its power in measuring the Glashow resonance by searching for the bump around E_(ν)=6.3PeV arising from the W-boson production.There are many proposals for the next few decades for observations of cosmic tau neutrinos with extensive air showers,also known as tau neutrino telescopes.The air shower telescope is,in principle,sensitive to the Glashow resonance via the channel W→τν_(τ)followed by the tau decay in the air(e.g.,TAMBO,which has a geometric area of approximately 500km^(2)).Using a thorough numerical analysis,we find that the discovery significance can be up to 90%with a TAMBO-like setup if PeV neutrinos primarily originate from neutron decays,considering the flux parameters measured by IceCube as the input.The presence of new physics affecting the neutrino flavor composition can also increase the significance.However,if ultrahigh-energy neutrinos are dominantly produced from meson decays,it will be statistically difficult for an advanced proposal such as TAMBO to discriminate the Glashow resonance induced byν¯e from the intrinsicντ/ν¯_(τ)background.We have identified several limitations for such advanced telescopes,in comparison with the in-ice or in-water telescope,when measuring resonances:(i)a suppressed branching ratio of 11%for the decay W→τν_(τ);(ii)the smearing effect and reduced acceptance because the daughter neutrino takes away(y)∼75%of the energy from the W decay;and(iii)a large attenuation effect for Earth-skimming neutrinos with the resonance.
文摘The impact of radiation reaction and Breit±Wheeler pair production on the acceleration of fully ionized carbon ions driven by an intense linearly polarized laser pulse has been investigated in the ultra-relativistic transparency regime.Against initial expectations, the radiation reaction and pair production at ultra-high laser intensities are found to enhance the energy gained by the ions. The electrons lose most of their transverse momentum, and the additionally produced pair plasma of Breit±Wheeler electrons and positrons co-streams in the forward direction as opposed to the existing electrons streaming at an angle above zero degree. We discuss how these observations could be explained by the changes in the phase velocity of the Buneman instability, which is known to aid ion acceleration in the breakout afterburner regime, by tapping the free energy in the relative electron and ion streams. We present evidence that these non-classical effects can further improve the highest carbon ion energies in this transparency regime.
基金The project support from CERN and from the national agencies:CAPES,CNPq,FAPERJ and FINEP(Brazil)MOST and NSFC(China)+18 种基金CNRS/IN2P3(France)BMBF,DFG and MPG(Germany)INFN(Italy)NWO(Netherlands)MNiSW and NCN(Poland)MEN/IFA(Romania)MICINN(Spain)SNSF and SER(Switzerland)NASU(Ukraine)STFC(United Kingdom)DOE NP and NSF(USA).We acknowledge the computing resources that are provided by CERN,IN2P3(France),KIT and DESY(Germany),INFN(Italy),SURF(Netherlands),PIC(Spain),GridPP(United Kingdom),CSCS(Switzerland),IFIN-HH(Romania),CBPF(Brazil),Polish WLCG(Poland)and NERSC(USA).Individual groups or members have received support from ARC and ARDC(Australia)Minciencias(Colombia)AvH Foundation(Germany)EPLANET,Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions and ERC(European Union)A*MIDEX,ANR,IPhU and Labex P2IO,and Région Auvergne-RhôneAlpes(France)Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences of CAS,CAS PIFI,CAS CCEPP,Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities,and Sci.&Tech.Program of Guangzhou(China)GVA,XuntaGal,GENCAT and Prog.Atracción Talento,CM(Spain)SRC(Sweden)the Leverhulme Trust,the Royal Society and UKRI(United Kingdom).
文摘A first search for the Ξ_(bc)^(+)J/ψΞ_(c)^(+) decay is performed by the LHCb experiment with a data sample of proton-proton collisions, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 9 fb−1 recorded at centre-of-mass energies of 7, 8, and 13 TeV. Two peaking structures are seen with a local (global) significance of 4.3(2.8) and 4.1(2.4) standard deviations at masses of 6571 and 6694 MeV/c2, respectively. Upper limits are set on the Ξ+bc baryon production cross-section times the branching fraction relative to that of the B+c→J/ψD+s decay at centre-of-mass energies of 8 and 13 TeV, in the Ξ+bc and in the B+c rapidity and transverse-momentum ranges from 2.0 to 4.5 and 0 to 20GeV/c, respectively. Upper limits are presented as a function of the Ξ+bc mass and lifetime.
文摘A search for the rare decays W^(+)→D_(s)^(+)γ and Z→D0γis performed using proton-proton collision data collected by the LHCb experiment at a centre-of-mass energy of 13TeV,corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2.0fb−1.No significant signal is observed for either decay mode and upper limits on their branching fractions are set using W^(+)→D_(s)^(+)γ and Z→μ+μ−decays as normalization channels.The upper limits are 6.5×10^(−4) and 2.1×10^(−3) at 95% confidence level for the W^(+)→D_(s)^(+)γ and Z→D^(0)γ decay modes,respectively.This is the first reported search for the Z→D^(0)γ decay,while the upper limit on the W+→D+sγbranching fraction improves upon the previous best limit.
文摘The March 28 and April 4, 1982 eruptions of the E1 Chichon volcano produced the densest dust cloud of this century in the stratosphere which provided an unprecedented opportunity to study aerosol and its weather and climatic significance, and the minor atmospheric constituent diffusion, transport and sink mechanisms, etc. With
文摘First evidence of a structure in the J/ψΛinvariant mass distribution is obtained from an amplitude analysis of■b^(-)J/ψΛK^(-)decays.The observed structure is consistent with being due to a charmonium pentaquark with strangeness with a significance of 3.1r including systematic uncertainties and lookelsewhere effect.Its mass and width are determined to be 4458:8±2:9t4:7-1:1 MeV and 17:3±6:5t8:0-5:7 MeV,respectively,where the quoted uncertainties are statistical and systematic.The structure is also consistent with being due to two resonances.In addition,the narrow excited■^(-)states,N■(1690)and■(1820),are seen for the first time in a■b^(-)decay,and their masses and widths are measured with improved precision.The analysis is performed using pp collision data corresponding to a total integrated luminosity of 9 fb^(-1),collected with the LHCb experiment at centre-of-mass energies of 7,8 and 13 TeV.
基金support from ERC Starting (Grant No. 639217 CSINEUTRONSTAR)support from a Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) Vidi Fellowship+2 种基金suported by the European Union Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Global Fellowship (Grant No. 703916)supported in part by the DFG through Grant SFB 1245 and the ERC (Grant No. 307986 STRONGINT)support of the Chinese Academy of Sciences through the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. XDA15020100)
文摘In this White Paper we present the potential of the Enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry(eXTP) mission for determining the nature of dense matter; neutron star cores host an extreme density regime which cannot be replicated in a terrestrial laboratory. The tightest statistical constraints on the dense matter equation of state will come from pulse profile modelling of accretion-powered pulsars, burst oscillation sources, and rotation-powered pulsars. Additional constraints will derive from spin measurements, burst spectra, and properties of the accretion flows in the vicinity of the neutron star. Under development by an international Consortium led by the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the eXTP mission is expected to be launched in the mid 2020 s.
