Light yield of an undoped CsI crystal coupled directly to a photomultiplier tube at 77 Kelvin

Kavli Affiliate: Masaki Yamashita | Summary:A light yield of 20.4 $pm$ 0.8 photoelectrons/keV was achieved with an undoped CsI crystal coupled directly to a photomultiplier tube at 77 Kelvin. This is by far the largest yield in the world achieved with CsI crystals. An energy threshold that is several times lower than the current dark […]


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Visible camera cryostat design and performance for the SuMIRe Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS)

Kavli Affiliate: Naoyuki Tamura | Summary:We describe the design and performance of the SuMIRe Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) visible camera cryostats. SuMIRe PFS is a massively multi-plexed ground-based spectrograph consisting of four identical spectrograph modules, each receiving roughly 600 fibers from a 2394 fiber robotic positioner at the prime focus. Each spectrograph module has three […]


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The survey operation software system development for Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) on Subaru Telescope

Kavli Affiliate: Naoyuki Tamura | Summary:The Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) is a wide-field, multi-object spectrograph accommodating 2394 fibers to observe the sky at the prime focus of the Subaru telescope. The software system to operate a spectroscopic survey is structured by the four packages: Instrument control software, exposure targeting software, data reduction pipeline, and survey […]


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Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) for the Subaru Telescope: Overview, recent progress, and future perspectives

Kavli Affiliate: Naoyuki Tamura | Summary:PFS (Prime Focus Spectrograph), a next generation facility instrument on the 8.2-meter Subaru Telescope, is a very wide-field, massively multiplexed, optical and near-infrared spectrograph. Exploiting the Subaru prime focus, 2394 reconfigurable fibers will be distributed over the 1.3 deg field of view. The spectrograph has been designed with 3 arms […]


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Metrology Camera System of Prime Focus Spectrograph for Subaru Telescope

Kavli Affiliate: Naoyuki Tamura | Summary:The Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) is a new optical/near-infrared multi-fiber spectrograph designed for the prime focus of the 8.2m Subaru telescope. PFS will cover a 1.3 degree diameter field with 2394 fibers to complement the imaging capabilities of Hyper SuprimeCam. To retain high throughput, the final positioning accuracy between the […]


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The Current Status of Prime Focus Instrument of Subaru Prime Focus Spectrograph

Kavli Affiliate: Naoyuki Tamura | Summary:The Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) is a new optical/near-infrared multi-fiber spectrograph design for the prime focus of the 8.2m Subaru telescope. PFS will cover 1.3 degree diameter field with 2394 fibers to complement the imaging capability of Hyper SuprimeCam (HSC). The prime focus unit of PFS called Prime Focus Instrument […]


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Tuning of the Charged Hadrons Multiplicities for Deep Inelastic Interactions in NEUT

Kavli Affiliate: Mark Hartz | Summary:We describe a procedure to tune the charged hadron multiplicities for deep inelastic events produced by the NEUT neutrino interaction generator. This tuning uses a model based on Koba-Nielsen-Olesen scaling, whose parameters are obtained by fitting multiplicity data from deuterium bubble chamber experiments. After tuning, the multiplicities of the events […]


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Cherkis bow varieties and Coulomb branches of quiver gauge theories of affine type $A$

Kavli Affiliate: Hiraku Nakajima | Summary:We show that Coulomb branches of quiver gauge theories of affine type $A$ are Cherkis bow varieties, which have been introduced as ADHM type description of moduli space of instantons on the Taub-NUT space equivariant under a cyclic group action. | Search Query: arXiv Query: search_query=au:”Nakajima Hiraku”&id_list=&start=0&max_results=10Read More


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High purity NaI(Tl) scintillator to search for dark matter

Kavli Affiliate: Kunio Inoue | Summary:A high purity and large volume NaI(Tl) scintillator was developed to search for cosmic dark matter. The required densities of radioactive impurities (RIs) such as U-chain, Th-chain are less than a few ppt to establish high sensitivity to dark matter. The impurity of RIs were effectively reduced by selecting raw […]


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Towards a mathematical definition of Coulomb branches of $3$-dimensional $mathcal N=4$ gauge theories, II

Kavli Affiliate: Hiraku Nakajima | Summary:Consider the $3$-dimensional $mathcal N=4$ supersymmetric gauge theory associated with a compact Lie group $G_c$ and its quaternionic representation $mathbf M$. Physicists study its Coulomb branch, which is a noncompact hyper-Kähler manifold with an $mathrmSU(2)$-action, possibly with singularities. We give a mathematical definition of the Coulomb branch as an affine […]


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