Using the XMM-Newton Small Window Mode to investigate systematic uncertainties in the particle background of X-ray CCD detectors

Kavli Affiliate: Eric D. Miller | First 5 Authors: Gerrit Schellenberger, Ralph Kraft, Paul Nulsen, Eric D. Miller, Marshall W. Bautz | Summary: The level and uncertainty of the particle induced background in CCD detectors plays a crucial role for future X-ray instruments, such as the Wide Field Imager (WFI) onboard Athena. To mitigate the […]


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Annihilation-limited Long-range Exciton Transport in High-mobility Conjugated Copolymer Films

Kavli Affiliate: Graham Fleming | First 5 Authors: Yuping Shi, Partha Roy, Naoki Higashitarumizue, Tsung-Yen Lee, Quanwei Li | Summary: A combination of ultrafast, long-range and low-loss excitation energy transfer from the photo-receptor location to a functionally active site is essential for cost-effective polymeric semiconductors. Delocalized electronic wavefunctions along {pi}-conjugated polymer backbone can enable efficient […]


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Surface-dominant transport in Weyl semimetal NbAs nanowires for next-generation interconnects

Kavli Affiliate: Zhiting Tian | First 5 Authors: Yeryun Cheon, Mehrdad T. Kiani, Yi-Hsin Tu, Sushant Kumar, Nghiep Khoan Duong | Summary: Ongoing demands for smaller and more energy efficient electronic devices necessitate alternative interconnect materials with lower electrical resistivity at reduced dimensions. Despite the emergence of many promising candidates, synthesizing high quality nanostructures remains […]


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Fundamental Limits of Hierarchical Secure Aggregation with Cyclic User Association

Kavli Affiliate: Xiang Zhang | First 5 Authors: Xiang Zhang, Zhou Li, Kai Wan, Hua Sun, Mingyue Ji | Summary: Secure aggregation is motivated by federated learning (FL) where a cloud server aims to compute an averaged model (i.e., weights of deep neural networks) of the locally-trained models of numerous clients, while adhering to data […]


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Measurement of the Branching Fraction of $Λ_c^+ to p K_S^0 π^0$ at Belle

Kavli Affiliate: T. Higuchi | First 5 Authors: The Belle, Belle II Collaborations, :, I. Adachi, L. Aggarwal | Summary: We report a precise measurement of the ratio of branching fractions $mathcal{B}(Lambda_c^+to p K_S^0 pi^0)/mathcal{B}(Lambda_c^+to p K^- pi^+)$ using 980 fb$^{-1}$ of $e^+e^-$ data from the Belle experiment. We obtain a value of $mathcal{B}(Lambda_c^+to p […]


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Measurement of the Branching Fraction of $Λ_c^+ to p K_S^0 π^0$ at Belle

Kavli Affiliate: T. Higuchi | First 5 Authors: The Belle, Belle II Collaborations, :, I. Adachi, L. Aggarwal | Summary: We report a precise measurement of the ratio of branching fractions $mathcal{B}(Lambda_c^+to p K_S^0 pi^0)/mathcal{B}(Lambda_c^+to p K^- pi^+)$ using 980 fb$^{-1}$ of $e^+e^-$ data from the Belle experiment. We obtain a value of $mathcal{B}(Lambda_c^+to p […]


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High-Precision Transformer-Based Visual Servoing for Humanoid Robots in Aligning Tiny Objects

Kavli Affiliate: Wei Gao | First 5 Authors: Jialong Xue, Wei Gao, Yu Wang, Chao Ji, Dongdong Zhao | Summary: High-precision tiny object alignment remains a common and critical challenge for humanoid robots in real-world. To address this problem, this paper proposes a vision-based framework for precisely estimating and controlling the relative position between a […]


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The critical role of dark matter halos in driving star formation

Kavli Affiliate: Yingjie Peng | First 5 Authors: Jing Dou, Yingjie Peng, Qiusheng Gu, Luis C. Ho, Alvio Renzini | Summary: Understanding the physical mechanisms that drive star formation is crucial for advancing our knowledge of galaxy evolution. We explore the interrelationships between key galaxy properties associated with star formation, with a particular focus on […]


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The critical role of dark matter halos in driving star formation

Kavli Affiliate: Yingjie Peng | First 5 Authors: Jing Dou, Yingjie Peng, Qiusheng Gu, Luis C. Ho, Alvio Renzini | Summary: Understanding the physical mechanisms that drive star formation is crucial for advancing our knowledge of galaxy evolution. We explore the interrelationships between key galaxy properties associated with star formation, with a particular focus on […]


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Energy-Efficient Port Selection and Beamforming Design for Integrated Data and Energy Transfer Assisted by Fluid Antennas

Kavli Affiliate: Long Zhang | First 5 Authors: Long Zhang, Yizhe Zhao, Halvin Yang, Guangming Liang, Jie Hu | Summary: Integrated data and energy transfer (IDET) is considered as a key enabler of 6G, as it can provide both wireless energy transfer (WET) and wireless data transfer (WDT) services towards low power devices. Thanks to […]


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